Do contemporary church movements contribute to emotionally dependent Christians?
Yes.
I was pondering some questions recently like:
Why are worship services so much more popular than prayer meetings?
Why do churches today seem so much more consumeristic than Christ centered?
Why is it that Christians seem more and more high maintenance in their spiritual needs?

I think for a long time there has been a chasm forming in the mind of western Christians that separates spiritual activities and aspiritual activities. In this dichotomy Christians evaluate the former from the ladder on an emotional relevancy basis. Hymns, for example which not often sung emotionally, retain very little spiritual benefit. You will hear people say, 'that song just didn't do it for me' or 'i just couldn't get into the worship today.' Worship services have thus evolved to fit this new generation of consumeristic high maintenance Christian with dimmed light and loud music to simulate a elevated emotional worship experience. Charismatic preaching, intense visual media, and dramatic altar calls, have similar affects on the Christian church experience. I do not think any of these things are heretical or bad but the danger remain when Christians closely associate the spiritual aspects of their lives with highly emotional atmospheres of worship. The danger is when Christians have trouble being alone with God, when their Christianity is fighting for it's life in the lows between conferences or retreats, when Christians leave churches because of the music. The alternative is a holistically spiritual Christian. A Christian who is always interacting with God. A Christians who sees the need for God in every aspect of life, that is a Christian who can worship God free from the dependency on emotionalism.

small unimportant vent

I am usually more about recycling than conserving but in the case of gasoline and oil I have some questions/solutions.
I found an article of Motor Madness on the internet that said that car in Nascar 250-mile races average around 2 miles a gallon. The article claimed that over the course of a season the sport will consume roughly 200 million gallons of gas. Another shocking thing I found in the article is that Nascar cars are exempt from pollution controls. Add on top of this how dangerous the sport and I think the sum may trump the entertainment of the sport and the job market it provides. The sport is wasting gas, killing the planet, and endangering its participants. I admit that I am bias and that I think the sport is boring, but there has got to be a better use for all those resources.


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