Deutero Q

The following words by J.I. Packer (from his Christian classic Knowing God) are instructive:

"Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.... Churchmen who look at God, so to speak, through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pygmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pygmy Christians."

I wonder if a reason why much of contemporary church life is spiritually stunted is because we have too small a view of God. Surely one of the imperatives of our time is to put God back on display ... to intentionally magnify His greatness and glory, His attributes, His sovereignty in salvation, etc. Our spiritual health will most certainly improve as we exchange the man-centeredness and faddism so prevalent in American church life for God-centered, biblical Christianity.

(We American Christians seem prone to flit from fad to fad [e.g., the health and wealth gospel, seeker-sensitivity, emergent, etc.]; what makes us so succeptible to spiritual faddism? Any ideas?)