Scripture champions contentment and self-control, not the endless pursuit of personal desires. Teaching and modeling these increasingly un-American v… - Skye Jethani

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.

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

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.