I went on a rant yesterday.
We came out of the cinema yesterday at Bluewater and came across a donut shop which sells donuts for 90p each!

That, though, was not as surprising as the fact that there was actually a long queue of people wanting to buy them!! People queuing to spend nearly a quid on one little glazed ring doughnut. They don’t even have jam for goodness sake!!!!

90p is roughly equivalent to $1.50. 1.5 billion people live on only $1 a day. And here we are in the west paying more on one little thing which must cost a very small amount to produce.

It’s a disgrace and it’s criminal – what are we coming to? It seems that people have become numb and just blindly doing what retailers and others want them to. It’s like ‘ooo there’s a nice clean doughnut shop. We can watch them move on the nice machine as they cook. Look, we can but one – no, lets have 2 and here’s £2! Bargain!!’

Come on people, wake up! It’s a flippin doughnut, and you can but 10 for the same price as the one you are getting in this place in any supermarket.

We need to stop this stupidity – shouldn’t we, as Christians, be a challenging prophetic voice that wakes people up to how ridiculous this is? Shouldn’t we be offering a viable and radical alternative to this level of consumerism?