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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.

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

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