Wednesday 21 April 2010

This Sunday's service at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church is sponsored by General Motors

...and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
John 2:13b-16

It seems that consumerist "Christianity" isn't restricted to suburban megachurches mainly populated by white people. As reported in the Detroit Free Press on April 19, 2010:

In what organizers said was the first event of its kind in the area, Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit teamed up Sunday with GM and the GM Minority Dealers Association to offer churchgoers a chance to test drive more than a dozen cars.

As congregants left the northwest side church at 1 p.m., Pastor Charles Adams said the idea of Ride and Drive was to demonstrate GM's commitment to minority causes, its employment of thousands of local African Americans and to encourage churchgoers to buy a new GM car.

...Banks also were on hand to show potential new car owners how to apply for a loan. The church was chosen to host the event because it has a history of activism, said event spokesman Kevin McCormick.

If you can find anything in this article that has anything to with the gospel of Jesus Christ or worship of Him, you're more perceptive than I am.

HT: Southwest Radio Ministries

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