We have all swallowed the cultural punch that believes institutions are both the means and the end of God's mission in the world. - Skye Jethani

The transformation of our desires happens like all spiritual transformation - by following in the steps of Jesus. In a word, I believe the answer is suffering.

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?

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?