Worship Service: Cognitive Dissonance

Learning by exposure to a radically different environment. Students of human development tell us that basic values are formed in the decisive adolescent years. Without such experiences, people of affluence do not experience the clash of idealism and reality necessary to moral growth. Greed, once a vice, has become a virtue and infects us all. We need to serve not only people at risk of poverty but people at risk of affluence.