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Podcast: Liquid Church
Episode: Money & Your Stuff pt 1: Affluenza - message 1/15/06
Description: Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that
results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of
stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of
the American Dream. 3. A spiritual illness that Jesus counsels his
followers to avoid at all costs
As Westerners, we live in a society of unprecedented affluence, a
culture of luxury that teaches us to buy, spend, and consume from
early on. Yet Jesus warns his followers "Watch out! Be on your guard
against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the
abundance of his possessions"...