Singer Mattie Montgomery from popular Christian metalcore band “For Today,” offered a word of caution about popularity gospel, something he says is today’s generation’s prosperity gospel.
In an interview with The Christian Post about his book Scary God: Introducing the Fear of the Lord to the Postmodern Church, Montgomery says that today’s generation has lost what it means to fear God and instead live by a “fear of man” principle.
Montgomery said, “We have been taught — especially in our social media generation — that the most important thing you can be is popular. Your value as a person is defined primarily by the number of followers you have on social media, how many likes you get.”
Montgomery goes on to note that in today’s social media world, people place their identity and their worth in their retweets and Instagram likes. The singer even goes as far as to say that people have lost the concept of self and are marketing themselves like commodities online.
He said, “Because we market ourselves and packaged ourselves as a product to be sold, if we ever come to a place in our life where people aren’t buying the product, we feel like an absolute failure. Ourselves, our individuality, our identity comes under attack.”
The veteran singer then shared a comparison between prosperity gospel – which teaches…
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