Worship the Baby, Resist the Empire December 16, 2007
Posted by Zack in New York, Texas, Michigan , trackbackThis Christmas, some lefties are telling people to “stop shopping.” And some Baptist preachers are telling people to “resist the empire” (and stop shopping). Isn’t it fascinating?
Listen to Mars Hill’s sermon podcast from last week with Chris Seay: “Worship the Baby, Resist the Empire.”
UPDATE: Actually, here are some audio excerpts from the sermon to make you more likely to listen:
Consumerism is the greatest threat to Christianity today, not evolution, secularism, post-modernism or any other ism; And this has been the story of the human race throughout the Bible; This is what Jesus came to undo…
While while we’re obsessing in our abundance, the reality is that across the globe there are levels of poverty that we can’t even imagine; How should that change the way we do Christmas? In our church, we asked our kids and they told us: Let’s channel these billions we spend on presents into helping the poor…
We are all God’s children, and so if we’re letting our “siblings” suffer, how do you think that makes our Father feel? Imagine one of your own children getting rich and letting your other children languish in poverty…
This is not how it was supposed to be…
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I feel like I’m a foot soldier in this revolution that is taking place with my weekly radio broadcast (Dallas/Fort Worth KKGM/1630 am 12:30 PM Sunday afternoons.) May some good come of it.
Love
David Perkins, Fort Worth
www.JesusChristSaid.com