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We need to see beyond our culture; we need to peer through the bars of commodification and alienation and catch a glimpse of a God far larger than our circumstances.
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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.
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Our imaginations can throw off the shackles of consumerism if we start to feel the infinite once again.
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Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered.
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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.
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In less than a century, Christians have gone from opposing over-consumption at Christmas to demanding it be done in Christ's name alone.
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We've been conditioned to avoid silence at all costs lest we be confronted with our own inner chaos.
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Disciplines teach us to overcome the temptation to gratify our immediate desires so that we may attain a higher one.
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In a culture that insists on making God small, we can counteract the trend by focusing our imaginations on what is big.
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Consumer Christianity seeks to construct programs to capture God's power and produce predetermined outcomes, rather than surrender to the mysterious movement of God's grace which, like the wind or fire, is beyond our control.
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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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Skye Jethani
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Skye Jethani is an American author, speaker, and the managing editor of Leadership journal, a magazine and online resource published by Christianity Today International.
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