ABSTRACT

Members of Evangelical churches are quite willing to change their religious community. Members of the evangelical subtype certainly believe that people should be loyal to their own religious community, and not immediately run away from every problem. And they also criticize what they perceive to be a Christian consumer mentality. Nevertheless, many members of evangelical churches are very willing to change their community if that would give them the opportunity to live their faith better, to bring up their children in a more Christian way, or if other circumstances make a change beneficial. When people consider alternative-spiritual suppliers, then different relations appear again. These suppliers operate in an almost typically ideal market. Most are individual religious-spiritual undertakings that sometimes form circles or communities around themselves. They often see their consumers not as members, but as participants or customers. They have internalized the constant wandering by people from one product to another.