| − | '''Fast Food Christianity''' is [[consumer]]-oriented Christianity that treats churchgoers as customers and is oriented toward pleasing them rather than toward remaining true to the [[Gospel]].<ref>[http://healthelanddevotionalarchives.wordpress.com/category/fast-food-christianity/ Fast Food Christianity], from Heal the Land Daily Devotional Archives</ref><ref>[http://carolinachristianconservative.blogspot.com/2005/05/fast-food-christianity.html Fast Food Christianity], from Carolina Christian Conservative</ref> Since "the customer is always right," a fast-food Christian church waters down its message so as not to scare off its congregants (or their [[tithe]]s), often taking care to rebuke only other people for their [[sin]]s. The difference between fast-food Christianity and [[cafeteria Christianity]] is that the former focuses on a church's institutional distortion of God's Word, while the latter focuses on an individual worshiper's doing so. | + | '''Fast Food Christianity''' is [[consumer]]-oriented Christianity that treats churchgoers as customers and is oriented toward pleasing them rather than toward remaining true to the [[Gospel]].<ref>[http://healthelanddevotionalarchives.wordpress.com/category/fast-food-christianity/ Fast Food Christianity], from Heal the Land Daily Devotional Archives</ref><ref>[http://carolinachristianconservative.blogspot.com/2005/05/fast-food-christianity.html Fast Food Christianity], from Carolina Christian Conservative</ref> Since "the customer is always right," a fast-food Christian church waters down its message so as not to scare off its congregants (or their [[tithe]]s), often taking care to rebuke only other people for their [[sin]]s. A fast-food Christian church may also ignore any parts of Biblical morality that are inconvenient to advancement in liberal political circles, ignoring the words of Christ in Matthew 16:26, "For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" The difference between fast-food Christianity and [[cafeteria Christianity]] is that the former focuses on a church's institutional distortion of God's Word, while the latter focuses on an individual worshiper's doing so. |