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Skye Jethani on Imagination

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By yielding its imagination to the forms around it, has the church, like ancient Israel, lost the ability to be an alternative people of God?

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

In a culture that insists on making God small, we can counteract the trend by focusing our imaginations on what is big.

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

Silence can shatter the trivialized deity that has occupied our imaginations and provide God the canvas to begin a new work in our souls.

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

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)

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)

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)

Our culture has confined our imaginations with an uninspiring vision of God. He's been reduced to a manageable deity of consumable proportions.

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

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