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The spiritual life must find its origin in silence.

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Ironically, it is often our zeal to protect our faith that leads to its loss.

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History has shown syncretism to the culture is a chronic ailment of the church.

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The "trials of ordinary existence" are the divine curricula for spiritual maturity.

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We must learn to exist in a consumer empire but not forfeit our souls at its altar.

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We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.

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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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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 imaginations can throw off the shackles of consumerism if we start to feel the infinite once again.

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Whether by trials of circumstance or by disciplines of choice, we cannot escape our calling to suffer with Christ.

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

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Consumerism has created a culture that values style over substance, image over reality, and perception over performance.

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

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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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When we expect transformation to occur through external experiences, we are opting for an inferior model of spiritual formation.

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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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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 influence of consumerism has led us to confuse institutions for people, means for the mission, and programs for the Spirit's power.

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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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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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If we are to effectively make disciples of Jesus Christ and teach them to obey everything he commanded, we cannot neglect the imagination.

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

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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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