I have the best group of people on the planet to work with at Coastal Community Church. They are an amazing, eclectic mix of individuals who bring differing voices and thoughts to the table. I love serving together with them as we make Jesus famous in Ft. Lauderdale.
As a staff we are reading a book by Skye Jethani called The Divine Commodity. The book is about discovering our faith beyond being consumer Christians. We are just in chapter one but there are some great and thought provoking quotes that I thought I would share.
“Problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created them.” Albert Einstein
“Questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and imagine almost nothing.”
“The fertile land of imagination is a terrain we pass through, not a field we cultivate.”
“Jesus’ adult followers suffered from a chronic lack of imagination. Their minds were shackled by conventionality.”
“Art should do more than present reality; it should represent reality by uncovering the truth that is not apparent to the naked eye.” Vincent Van Gogh
“He didn’t merely present the world as it is; he represented it as one full of God’s presence and love. But to see this world a person needs more than eyes. He or she needs a ray from on high, an imagination awakened and illuminated by God.”
“If your imagination of God is starved then when you come up against difficulties, you have not power, you can only endure darkness.” Oswald Chambers
and the most convicting statement
“The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act.”