Makers Magazine - Spring 2024 - Flipbook - Page 4
“What you want is what you get.” “The customer is always right.”
“Have it your way.”
You can hardly get out of bed in the morning without being
barraged by marketing and advertisements. They all use different
approaches, but they have the same goal in mind: your business,
your support, your patronage. To accomplish this goal, they cater to
you. Make you feel special, wanted, important. We are surrounded
with voices loudly declaring that they exist to serve us, to meet our
needs, to improve our lives.
As a result, each day we move closer to the center of the universe.
Even when we reject the idea intellectually, we often devote
ourselves to it subconsciously. We believe that life is about us.
I’m a big advocate of price-matching to get the best deals possible.
This culture has created a bit of a problem. How do we go from the
marketplace, which makes us feel like the most important thing
in the universe (at least until they have our money), to the church,
without bringing that same attitude with us?
While Walmart or Target might make you feel like they are all about
you, the church definitively is not. Not in the spelling. Not in the
mission. Not in the purpose.
HARD TRUTH:
THERE’S NO ‘I’ IN CHURCH
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