Fight Club

In chapter 4, Nesting Instinct, we're introduced to our protagonist the nameless narrator.  We find him introspectively wondering what sort of dining set defines him as a person as his apartment unfolds before us by catalogue description and price.  Out of this very distorted view of assigning worth, we find the basis for our narrator's psychological disassociation with a cultural system of a value in things rather than one that stresses a more essentially necessary sense of spiritual fulfillment.

Philippians 3:7-9

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⁷But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [^[a]one combined] loss for Christ's sake.

    ⁸Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ (the Anointed One),

    ⁹And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law's demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith.

In chapter 14, Paper Street, a fully expressed mental projection of Tyler Durden has become manifest and interacts with our narrator.  They share stories from childhood that give us insight as to how our narrator has come to be the person that he is.  This dialogue also serves to give descriptive perspective on our current society's problems of prolonged adolescence for a generation of men raised in light of absentee fathers.  

Psalm 68:4-6

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⁴Sing to God, sing praises to His name, cast up a highway for Him Who rides through the deserts--His name is the Lord--be in high spirits and glory before Him!

    ⁵A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation.

    ⁶God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

In chapter 20, The Middle Children of History, Tyler correctly describes his congregation as one without place or purpose and that their Great War is one that is spiritual in nature.  Although his assessment may prove correct, his reaction to it does not.  This message should resonate within every believer and point to a more appropriate response.   

2 Corinthians 10:3-6

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  ³For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons.
    ⁴For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds,
    ⁵[Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),
    ⁶Being in readiness to punish every [insubordinate for his] disobedience, when your own submission and obedience [as a church] are fully secured and complete.

In chapter 24, Human Sacrifice, Tyler coerces a convenience store worker to pursue that which he had originally begun to be what he truly wanted.  Upon further reflection, how many of us settle for lesser things than for what God had genuinely planted in our hearts?  How many of us lose heart and settle to be defined by what we have, do or are able to acquire rather than who He's called us to be?

Ephesians 4:1-3

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 ¹I THEREFORE, the prisoner for the Lord, appeal to and beg you to walk (lead a life) worthy of the [divine] calling to which you have been called [with behavior that is a credit to the summons to God's service,    ²Living as becomes you] with complete lowliness of mind (humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentleness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another.
    ³Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace.