WARNING: Rob’s got his napalm out again. Reading this post may cause you to send hate-mail. Please read with care.
The US Postmaster recently admitted that the single largest customer of the US Mail is, not you and me dear tax-paying citizen, but the bulk-mail industry. If not for the incessant stream of marketing mailers, catalogs, coupons, offers to sell your house, replace your windows, whiten your teeth, and now that the season is upon us, heaven help us, pleas for money and/or votes to send the next bunch of criminals to state and federal legislatures, the US Post would be kaput.
It’s because of bulk mail that I finally started recycling. From the mailbox directly to the blue bin. Very handy. Very wasteful.
But that’s not why you called.
Nothing to ad to that but a prayer of thanksgiving.
Well said, Rob! As one who is Pastoring one of those Non-Denominational (ahem), churches, we often deal with the ‘consumer’ mentality…and your post is making me aware of how we feed into it as well.
I DO think that becoming a follower of Christ actually DOES lead to the ‘best life possible’, but this is a complex issue. Jesus did say in John 10:10 that He had come to give His followers “Life, to the full”. However, turning that around and making HIM serve ME is wildly out of phase with what He’s talking about…and we Americans tend to do that!