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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. Wikipedia  

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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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“We've been conditioned to avoid silence at all costs lest we be confronted with our own inner chaos.”

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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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“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“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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“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“We do not desire too much, but too little.”

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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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“The spiritual life must find its origin in silence.”

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“The transformation of our desires happens like all spiritual transformation - by following in the steps of Jesus. In a word, I believe the answer is suffering.”

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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

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

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“The dilemma posed by consumerism is not the endless manufacturing of desires, but the temptation to settle for desires far below what we were created for.”

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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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“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“We live, and move, and have our being in a consumer cosmos. The global economy and interconnection of markets and resources means every time we eat a meal, listen to music, put on clothing, or read a book, we are being consumers.”

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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“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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“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“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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“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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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

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

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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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“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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“Modern people may express outrage at the horrors of the African slave trade or the Holocaust, but in truth the commodification of human beings that made those atrocities possible is more prevalent today than ever before.”

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The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

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

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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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