6 Unbiblical Trends Concerning our View of the Church

R. Kent Hughes in his book Set Apart: Calling a worldly church to a Godly life says there are at least 6 trends that are common in American Christianity that undermine the picture of what the church is to be:
(1) Hitchhiker Christians—Evangelicalism is blanketed with a trend of conditional loyalty that has produced an army of church hitchhikers (you buy the car, pay for the repairs, insurance, and gas and I’ll ride with you. But if you have an accident, you are on your own and I might sue).
(2) Consumer Christians—What’s in it for me? Church shoppers attend one church for preaching, send their children to a second church for its youth program, and go to a third church’s small group.
(3) Spectator Christians—There are always those who hang at the church's fringes as spectators. They have bought that lie that virtue can come and grow merely through viewing and listening (Fans who cheer the players on while they themselves are in desperate need of engagement.
(4) Drive-through Christians—The nice things about drive through is that you can get what you want in a minimum of time with no more effort than turning your power steering. The result is a drive through nation of unfit people with an addiction to fast foods. Drive through Christians get their church fix out of the way either on Saturday nights or early Sunday services so there will be time for other activities. Of course, there is a high price to pay over time in the habits and spiritual arteries of a flabby soul--a family that is unfit for the battles of life and has no conception of being Christian soldiers in the great spiritual battle.
(5) Relationless Christians— The Bible pictures Christians as people who live in relationship to Christ and to one another by virtue of their being members of Christ's body, the church. But in this erroneous view, the best church is the one that knows you least and demands the least--that is, no accountability or demands.
(6) Churchless Christians--The current myth is that a life of worship is possible, even better, apart from the church. The loss of commitment to the church has naturally produced a casual observance of Sunday as the Lord's Day. What in the Old Testament is called a holy day has become for many professing Christians a holiday.