Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter
“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)
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