According to J.I. Packer, in an essay entitled Leisure and Lifestyle: Leisure, Pleasure and Treasure, evangelicals have paid relatively little attention to thinking about leisure, emphasizing ‘work rather than leisure, activity rather than rest, and life commitments rather than life-style choices.’  This is as it should be, since pre-occupation with leisure is unhealthy, a symptom of the deadly decadence that has already set in in the Western world.  See 1 Jn 2:15f.  ‘All around the world, as capitalist consumerism and the market economy grind on, carrying all before them, leisure and life-style are becoming areas of entrapment for Christian people. …