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

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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)

Divine agnosticism, the sort I'm advocating, affirms the existence of God but then acknowledges our human inability to fully grasp his infinite nature.

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

Job learned the wisdom of silence before God, but it appears many Christians have abandoned this value in our wordy world.

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

Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered.

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

The influence of consumerism has led us to confuse institutions for people, means for the mission, and programs for the Spirit's power.

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

Christ's true people are branded with love.

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

We have all swallowed the cultural punch that believes institutions are both the means and the end of God's mission in the world.

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

Our longing to pass through the gates of eternity will not be satisfied by any external experience, but by the dwelling of God within.

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

Jesus says God isn't like a gumball machine; he's more like the wind: unpredictable, uncontrollable, no more containable than wind in a bottle.

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

The spiritual life must find its origin in silence.

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

The "trials of ordinary existence" are the divine curricula for spiritual maturity.

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

History has shown syncretism to the culture is a chronic ailment of the church.

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

It is recognizing God's eternality that liberates our minds from their consumer inclination to reduce him to a commodity.

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

In less than a century, Christians have gone from opposing over-consumption at Christmas to demanding it be done in Christ's name alone.

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

We do not desire too much, but too little.

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)

What might we learn about God and ourselves if our Bible study group gathered outside to stare at the stars in silence?

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

We have a certainty about God and his ways that leads us to replace the mystery of faith with manageable spiritual formulas.

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

How might our perception of God be changed if we turned off the radio station for a few minutes and walked in a thunderstorm?

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)

Attribution

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