Skye Jethani: Church

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“Rather than pursuing our calling to present a vision of a world filled with God's power and love, the contemporary church merely presents the world as a two-dimensional facsimile of the consumer culture, albeit with a Jesus fish imprint.”

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

“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, Zondervan)

“Scripture champions contentment and self-control, not the endless pursuit of personal desires. Teaching and modeling these increasingly un-American values is not a high priority in most churches.”

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

“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, Zondervan)

“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, Zondervan)

“Has the contemporary church been so captivated by the images and methods of the consumer culture that it has forfeited its sacred vocation to be a countercultural agent of God's kingdom in the world?”

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

“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, Zondervan)

“Sociologists can no longer differentiate the lives of Christians from non-Christians, or the behavior of churches from corporations. We have abandoned the vision that Christianity is an alternative way.”

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

“Consumer Christianity, while promising to strengthen our souls with an entertaining faith, has left us malnourished with an anemic view of God, faith, church, and mission.”

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

“To believe that employing consumer methods in the church will produce spiritually mature Christians is delusional thinking akin to expecting a dog to hatch from a chicken's egg.”

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

“Wanting to obey Christ but lacking his imagination, we reinterpret the mission of the church through the only framework comprehendible to us--the one we've inherited from our consumer culture.”

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

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

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