broken relationships, starting with our relationship with God, not broken cars or appliances. It solves the most fundamental human problems, which are often ignored when Christians follow the world in asking the wrong, or at least peripheral, questions. Further, the world itself begins to distrust a church that does no more than mimic its own voice when the church claims to be speaking for God. The “quick-fix Deity” doesn’t exist. He is a fictional character, a piece of Americana. In a conversation,