I have a thought on being consumers, stolen from my pastor, Mitch Majeski – he taught last week that we are created by God to be consumers, it hasn’t been created by our culture – we’re created to be consumers of Christ. What the world has done is given us a ton of other stuff to consume INSTEAD of Christ.

John 7:37-38: On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”

So this would relate to Sunday morning in that we’re used to being offered a bunch of appealing worldly stuff to consume, and so we take that mentality into the church service. If we instead embrace the fact that we ARE consumers, and come to Jesus, our eyes shift off of us and our circumstances toward God and His purpose in this world and His grace, and suddenly our preferences don’t matter. Instead of consuming the service, we consume Jesus, and are satisfied.