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 co… - Skye Jethani

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.

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.

When we expect transformation to occur through external experiences, we are opting for an inferior model of spiritual formation.