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

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

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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.

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

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

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Christ's true people are branded with love.

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