Quote of the Day

"We have turned to a God that we can use rather than to a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God FOR us, for our satisfaction-not because we have learned to think of Him this way through Christ but because we have learned to think of Him this way through the marketplace. In the marketplace, everything is for us, for our pleasure, for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume it is so in the church as well. And if the sunshine of His benign grace fails to warm us as we expect, if He fails to shower prosperity and success on us, we will find ourselves unable to believe in Him anymore." "In a psychologized culture such as ours, there is deep affinity for what is relational but a dis-ease with what is moral. This carries over into the church as an infatuation with the love of God and an embarrassment at His holiness." -- God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams, by David Wells.