A Christian's guide to consumerism
Tesco ergo sum
In the last decade in Britain the land space given over to retailing has increased by 20%. Shopping is now our national hobby. We have to consume things to live, but now we seem to live to consume.
It is estimated that the average person receives around 3,000 advertising messages a day from TV, radio, magazines, bill-boards and so on. We are now entering the age of Internet shopping.
As God's creation, the world is a blessing to us, but as a Fallen world it is also a threat to us. Our struggle was said classically to be with 'the world, the flesh and the devil'. But now it is a very different world from the one our forefathers knew.
