Christian Consumerism. The other day I listened to a podcast by the Christian author and thinker Tim Keller. In it he identified major areas of concern within the western church. I was most interested, by one of the areas he pointed out, that of consumerism. This got me thinking about why this generation of Christians is so absorbed it its desire for product, rather than for substance. I believe that Christian consumerism is wrapped in an attitude of entitlement, which demands an end product, rather than a process for Christian life, culture and community. Today we are defined by what we buy or from which supermarket we buy our goods from. The clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the iPod or phone we use, are all driven by the dictates of social media, we are more concerned about what people think about us, than whether we can financially sustain our appetites. We enter church with the same supermarket mind-set, "What can I get out of it. "There is a picking a...