Skye Jethani Quotes

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Scripture and tradition tell us that formation into the likeness of Christ, also known as spiritual maturity, is not achieved by always getting what we want.

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Advertising has formed us to give our affection not only to the products we consume, but also to the personified corporations that supply them.

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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.

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We have a certainty about God and his ways that leads us to replace the mystery of faith with manageable spiritual formulas.

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Jesus is offering us a holiday at the sea, but we must be willing to abandon our mud pies in the slums.

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Our culture has confined our imaginations with an uninspiring vision of God. He's been reduced to a manageable deity of consumable proportions.

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The reduction of even sacred things into commodities explains why we exhibit so little reverence for God. In a consumer worldview he has no intrinsic value apart from his usefulness to us.

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Self-denial, the surrendering of immediate desires, is a prerequisite of the Christian life. This is noticeably absent in the gospel of Consumer Christianity.

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The alternative to prefabricated-experience spirituality is what has been practiced by Christians for centuries: prayer.

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