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

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

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

“Approaching Christianity as a brand explains why the majority of people who identify themselves as Christians live no differently than other Americans yet spend enormous amounts of money on Christian products.”

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

“Jesus isn't interested in negotiating. He knows that death, the surrendering of our immediate desires, is how we can take hold of an even greater joy.”

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

“Sociologists can no longer differentiate the lives of Christians from non-Christians, or the behavior of churches from corporations. We have abandoned the vision that Christianity is an alternative way.”

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

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

“Connected yet alienated - that is the paradox of our global digital culture. We have access to so many things, yet we are increasingly incapable of seeing those things, or ourselves, in any meaningful context.”

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

“Have we clothed our faith with the forms of our American culture to the point that our Christianity has morphed into something entirely different - a folk religion altogether consumerist in spirit and content?”

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

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

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

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

“Since the Enlightenment's coronation of knowledge, generations of Christians had brains full of biblical knowledge and doctrine, but their lives showed little evidence of the transformation Jesus called forth in his Sermon on the Mount.”

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

“In a commodity culture we have been conditioned to believe nothing carries intrinsic value. Instead, value is found only in a thing's usefulness to us, and tragically this belief has been applied to people as well.”

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“Paralleling the corporate shift away from manufacturing goods to manufacturing brands, Christianity in North America has drifted from a faith of substance to a faith of perception.”

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

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

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

“To believe that employing consumer methods in the church will produce spiritually mature Christians is delusional thinking akin to expecting a dog to hatch from a chicken's egg.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Although the forces of consumerism would have us remain forever in Neverland by running after every product promising to satisfy our desire and alleviate our suffering, the invitation of Christ is precisely the opposite.”

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“Finding true silence requires more than quieting our surroundings. It also means quieting our souls. This is the real dilemma of living in a wordy world.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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