Do Christians grow more through times of satisfaction or suffering? Pastor Skye Jethani, author of The Divine Commodity, shares how your answer may be connected to your beliefs about customer service. Also discussed: how we’re encouraged to see people, church and God as products -- and what we can do to change this.
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- 1:23 – The dirt on "Consumer Christianity," and how some of us are Consumer Christians without knowing it.
- 5:00 - Can evangelism differ from marketing?
- 10:42 - Skye claims the church has "lost its imagination;" if so, how do we reclaim it?
- 19:02 - How "commodification" puts friendship and church community under fire.
- 23:20 - When should we go "church shopping"? And some final thoughts on the satisfaction/suffering question.
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EC 3: Satisfaction / Suffering / Shopping
We’d love to hear your thoughts:
- Do our churches behave too much like corporations?
- How can our evangelism differ from marketing?
- Do we view our church and internet service through the same lens?
Full disclosure: the views expressed in the EngagingChurch podcast belong to the individual speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Zondervan.
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