Our value system promotes automatically frauds
and crooks when our living or our recognition depends only on the number of
students, electors, patients, fans, followers, devotees, connections we
actually manage to get or convince, let’s say on pleasing a maximum of people
because they can all potentially become our ‘customers’. No matter what we talk
about then, the truth is we are in a ‘market’ where the only associated
technique for success is called ‘marketing’.
And then how can we lead with integrity? How can
we teach with substance? How can we heal with medicine or love? How can we
truly create something? How can we be?
We can only pretend.
(Goradana)
“The church has been brought into the same value
system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the
leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate
the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest
edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.”
(Chuck Colson)
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