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Why the Devil takes VISA

A Christian response to the triumph of consumerism.

by Rodney Clapp | posted 10/07/1996 12:00AM

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Consumption is by no means necessarily bad. We must consume to live, and we can consume Christianly. We- and all creation—are creatures of a wonderful God, and as Christians inheritors of a bountiful, glorious, and hopeful faith. It is a faith that calls and equips us to act as priestly stewards, preserving and enhancing the other parts of creation given into our care. Doing so, we not only look back to Genesis, but ahead to the coming kingdom of God in Christ. Then lion will lie with lamb, and no child will want for bread, and every act of consumption will be an act of praise.

Rodney Clapp is a senior editor at InterVarsity Press and the author of Families at the Crossroads (1993) and the forthcoming A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society (1996). He lives in Wheaton, Illinois.

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