What I've Been Thinking About
Ah, yes, it's back to blogging for me. This whole week is a holiday week, though not really for me (Devoting my free time to my studies). Anyway, during my break from blogging I spared some time to engage in my favourite hobby...thinking. Here's some of my thoughts on the subject of the Church and its relation to Post-Modernism:
Still mostly "on the fence" with this issue. I don't like to be on the fence, but to take a side on this issues like this requires lots of study, contemplating and prayer. As far as I am concerned, it is not whether we should take and implement modernism or post-modernism into our church, but to focus on the Bible, and to project the best of our understanding of the Word onto everything else. I also dislike the modern/post-modern dichotomy, because Christians immediately are placed under those categories even if they do not completely subscribe to the whole deal.
Then there is also the issue of whether our society is still in its modern state, or has made the drift to post-modernism, or perhaps something else. I, myself, can't really say which. But methinks that rather than adapting our strategies to the "post-modern crowd", don't you think that we should approach the World in a distinctly Biblical way? I know that there is a lot of uncertainty over the meaning "Biblical", but that shouldn't stop us from trying to find out which is which. I don't really have a problem with adaptation (If it is biblically warranted, of course), but I still feel uneasy about the whole idea of changing our evangelistic methods to our worship services everytime the World changes its trends.
Well that's about it... I've a lot more thoughts on other subjects but not much time to write them down. Until next time,
Soli Deo Gloria
Still mostly "on the fence" with this issue. I don't like to be on the fence, but to take a side on this issues like this requires lots of study, contemplating and prayer. As far as I am concerned, it is not whether we should take and implement modernism or post-modernism into our church, but to focus on the Bible, and to project the best of our understanding of the Word onto everything else. I also dislike the modern/post-modern dichotomy, because Christians immediately are placed under those categories even if they do not completely subscribe to the whole deal.
Then there is also the issue of whether our society is still in its modern state, or has made the drift to post-modernism, or perhaps something else. I, myself, can't really say which. But methinks that rather than adapting our strategies to the "post-modern crowd", don't you think that we should approach the World in a distinctly Biblical way? I know that there is a lot of uncertainty over the meaning "Biblical", but that shouldn't stop us from trying to find out which is which. I don't really have a problem with adaptation (If it is biblically warranted, of course), but I still feel uneasy about the whole idea of changing our evangelistic methods to our worship services everytime the World changes its trends.
Well that's about it... I've a lot more thoughts on other subjects but not much time to write them down. Until next time,
Soli Deo Gloria
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on Wednesday, November 02, 2005 at 3:47 PM.
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