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Quotes from The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity — Skye Jethani

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If we are to effectively make disciples of Jesus Christ and teach them to obey everything he commanded, we cannot neglect the imagination.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Ministries that focus on manufacturing spiritual experiences may actually be retarding spiritual growth by making people experience-dependent.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Consumerism is the dominant worldview of North Americans. As such, it is competing with the kingdom of heaven for the hearts and imaginations of God's people.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Self-denial, the surrendering of immediate desires, is a prerequisite of the Christian life. This is noticeably absent in the gospel of Consumer Christianity.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

We've been conditioned to avoid silence at all costs lest we be confronted with our own inner chaos.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Our imaginations can throw off the shackles of consumerism if we start to feel the infinite once again.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Jesus is offering us a holiday at the sea, but we must be willing to abandon our mud pies in the slums.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Whether by trials of circumstance or by disciplines of choice, we cannot escape our calling to suffer with Christ.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Disciplines teach us to overcome the temptation to gratify our immediate desires so that we may attain a higher one.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

We must learn to exist in a consumer empire but not forfeit our souls at its altar.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Consumerism has created a culture that values style over substance, image over reality, and perception over performance.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

The alternative to prefabricated-experience spirituality is what has been practiced by Christians for centuries: prayer.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Ironically, it is often our zeal to protect our faith that leads to its loss.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

When we expect transformation to occur through external experiences, we are opting for an inferior model of spiritual formation.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Advertising has formed us to give our affection not only to the products we consume, but also to the personified corporations that supply them.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

The abundance of our definitive words about God shows that we don't view him as a great mystery anymore, but as a sterile calculation without ambiguity or obscurity.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

The god of Consumer Christianity does not inspire awe and wonder because he is nothing more than a commodity to be used for our personal satisfaction and self-achievement.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Scripture champions contentment and self-control, not the endless pursuit of personal desires. Teaching and modeling these increasingly un-American values is not a high priority in most churches.

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Skye Jethani (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.