Wanting to obey Christ but lacking his imagination, we reinterpret the mission of the church through the only framework comprehendible to us--the one we've inherited from our consumer culture.
Skye Jethani
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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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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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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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.
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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Our imaginations can throw off the shackles of consumerism if we start to feel the infinite once again.
In a culture that insists on making God small, we can counteract the trend by focusing our imaginations on what is big.
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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