THE CASE AGAINST CONSUMERISM (34)
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
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The Case against Consumerism (34)
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Introduction
People who know me are often quick to tell me I've got odd musical tastes. The majority of what I listen to is Classical music, and yet at the same time I love Bon Jovi and the ever-growing Americana genre. I can sing by heart both most any Johnny Cash and U2 song. If you think that's an odd combination, then you'd probably be surprised to learn then that Cash and U2 once collaborated on a song called 'The Wanderer.' I bring it up because Bono wrote the song based off of the book of Ecclesiastes as it tells the story of a man searching through life looking for meaning. He tries everything, finding himself lost and perplexed by all he finds. In one of the verses the man declares, ''I went out there in search of experience/To taste and to touch and to feel as much/As a man can before he repents.'' And it's exactly this search that we find the Preacher taking this morning.
Over the past two weeks we've been looking at the introduction to Ecclesiastes, where the Preacher has set out a description of his quest to find meaning and purpose in life. In this quest he said that he would use all of his resources to search in every nook and cranny of this world to find the meaning of life, to discern what the point of all of this really is. He also told us in the method he would use to find answers, namely, through experience, experimentation, and reason. Now we spent extensive time last week talking about why this method fails, but now we're going to start seeing how it fails. He's laid out his strategy, his method, and now as we get to chapter 2 we start this journey with him.
He begins with what is likely the most common place for us to find enjoyment and meaning: in stuff. Whether we use stuff to find joy or just to cover up our emptiness I think that consumerism is the biggest disease that plagues the We ...
Series: Wisdom - Suffering, Thinking, Loving, and Living Authentically
Patrick Edwards
Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Introduction
People who know me are often quick to tell me I've got odd musical tastes. The majority of what I listen to is Classical music, and yet at the same time I love Bon Jovi and the ever-growing Americana genre. I can sing by heart both most any Johnny Cash and U2 song. If you think that's an odd combination, then you'd probably be surprised to learn then that Cash and U2 once collaborated on a song called 'The Wanderer.' I bring it up because Bono wrote the song based off of the book of Ecclesiastes as it tells the story of a man searching through life looking for meaning. He tries everything, finding himself lost and perplexed by all he finds. In one of the verses the man declares, ''I went out there in search of experience/To taste and to touch and to feel as much/As a man can before he repents.'' And it's exactly this search that we find the Preacher taking this morning.
Over the past two weeks we've been looking at the introduction to Ecclesiastes, where the Preacher has set out a description of his quest to find meaning and purpose in life. In this quest he said that he would use all of his resources to search in every nook and cranny of this world to find the meaning of life, to discern what the point of all of this really is. He also told us in the method he would use to find answers, namely, through experience, experimentation, and reason. Now we spent extensive time last week talking about why this method fails, but now we're going to start seeing how it fails. He's laid out his strategy, his method, and now as we get to chapter 2 we start this journey with him.
He begins with what is likely the most common place for us to find enjoyment and meaning: in stuff. Whether we use stuff to find joy or just to cover up our emptiness I think that consumerism is the biggest disease that plagues the We ...
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