Skye Jethani - God Quotes

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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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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.

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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?

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Our longing to pass through the gates of eternity will not be satisfied by any external experience, but by the dwelling of God within.

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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.

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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.

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Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation.

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Divine agnosticism, the sort I'm advocating, affirms the existence of God but then acknowledges our human inability to fully grasp his infinite nature.

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What might we learn about God and ourselves if our Bible study group gathered outside to stare at the stars in silence?

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Job learned the wisdom of silence before God, but it appears many Christians have abandoned this value in our wordy world.

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We have all swallowed the cultural punch that believes institutions are both the means and the end of God's mission in the world.

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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?

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Maybe God is waiting for us to be silent long enough so he may begin painting a new picture in our imaginations, to begin transforming our image of a manageable deity into one that can truly inspire.

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How might our perception of God be changed if we turned off the radio station for a few minutes and walked in a thunderstorm?

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The abundance of our definitive words about God shows that we don't view him as a great mystery anymore, but as a sterile calculation without ambiguity or obscurity.

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Jesus says God isn't like a gumball machine; he's more like the wind: unpredictable, uncontrollable, no more containable than wind in a bottle.

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Silence can shatter the trivialized deity that has occupied our imaginations and provide God the canvas to begin a new work in our souls.

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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.

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It is recognizing God's eternality that liberates our minds from their consumer inclination to reduce him to a commodity.

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The god of Consumer Christianity does not inspire awe and wonder because he is nothing more than a commodity to be used for our personal satisfaction and self-achievement.

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In a consumer culture "incarnating Christ" no longer carries an expectation of Christians loving God and their neighbors; but rather the perpetual consumption of Christian merchandise.

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