Our culture has confined our imaginations with an uninspiring vision of God. He's been reduced to a manageable deity of consumable proportions. - Skye Jethani

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

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.

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.