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The personification of institutions in our culture means the institutional church, rather than the flesh-and-blood people of God, has become the vehicle of God's mission in the world. This is salvation via institution, paradise via programs.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)
Maybe God is waiting for us to be silent long enough so he may begin painting a new picture in our imaginations, to begin transforming our image of a manageable deity into one that can truly inspire.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)
Connected yet alienated - that is the paradox of our global digital culture. We have access to so many things, yet we are increasingly incapable of seeing those things, or ourselves, in any meaningful context.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)
Properly understood, the church is not an institution. It is the community of Jesus' followers on earth - men, women, an children filled with God's Spirit, living in communion with him, one another, and the world.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)
Although the forces of consumerism would have us remain forever in Neverland by running after every product promising to satisfy our desire and alleviate our suffering, the invitation of Christ is precisely the opposite.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)
Have we clothed our faith with the forms of our American culture to the point that our Christianity has morphed into something entirely different - a folk religion altogether consumerist in spirit and content?
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)
Our spiritual imaginations have fallen asleep on the comfortable mattress of the consumer culture, and before any remedy for the church can be prescribed our dormant imaginations must be stirred from their slumber.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)
Since the Enlightenment's coronation of knowledge, generations of Christians had brains full of biblical knowledge and doctrine, but their lives showed little evidence of the transformation Jesus called forth in his Sermon on the Mount.
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)