Skye Jethani: Quotes about people

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“Let's break free from artificial relationships with unfeeling, uncaring, unloving institutions that cannot contain the unpredictable wind of God's Spirit, and focus instead on building soulish connections with real people filled with the breath of God.”

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)

“Ministries that focus on manufacturing spiritual experiences may actually be retarding spiritual growth by making people experience-dependent.”

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

“Modern people may express outrage at the horrors of the African slave trade or the Holocaust, but in truth the commodification of human beings that made those atrocities possible is more prevalent today than ever before.”

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)

“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, Zondervan)

“Approaching Christianity as a brand explains why the majority of people who identify themselves as Christians live no differently than other Americans yet spend enormous amounts of money on Christian products.”

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

“In a commodity culture we have been conditioned to believe nothing carries intrinsic value. Instead, value is found only in a thing's usefulness to us, and tragically this belief has been applied to people as well.”

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

“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, Zondervan)

“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, Zondervan)

“Christ's true people are branded with love.”

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