Comments on: [What Makes a Church Postmodern?] http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20040519-what-makes-a-church-postmodern Spirituality // Technology // Emerging Ecclesiology Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:49:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: robbymac http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20040519-what-makes-a-church-postmodern#comment-1182 robbymac Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 //?p=#comment-1182 Which is why I'm liking Len Hjalmarsson's title of "NextReformation.com" more and more all the time (aside from the fact that Len's a good friend of mine). We're not talking, ultimately, about starting something completely new; we're talking about stripping away all the extra's and add-on's that have occluded or even corrupted the Gospel. It's a Reformation not a complete Replacement. Neither modernism nor postmodernism is Christianity's friend; they are worldviews that we are called to interact with, but neither is faith-friendly. Both can corrupt the gospel. But as missional people, we are to be in the world but not of the world, contextualizing the Gospel to the language and customs of this postmodern tribe that we feel a part of, and are called to impact. Reformation. Tied to what? History. The Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed. Not in a "let's tack this on to our belief systems and read a few prayers from the Book of Common Prayer" trendiness attitude, but from learning to deeply appreciate what has gone before us, and recognize that we're stepping into a River that has been flowing through history since Creation. Great posts, Justin! <i>(And I'm never heard of this Alan guy either...)</i> Which is why I’m liking Len Hjalmarsson’s title of “NextReformation.com” more and more all the time (aside from the fact that Len’s a good friend of mine).

We’re not talking, ultimately, about starting something completely new; we’re talking about stripping away all the extra’s and add-on’s that have occluded or even corrupted the Gospel. It’s a Reformation not a complete Replacement.

Neither modernism nor postmodernism is Christianity’s friend; they are worldviews that we are called to interact with, but neither is faith-friendly. Both can corrupt the gospel. But as missional people, we are to be in the world but not of the world, contextualizing the Gospel to the language and customs of this postmodern tribe that we feel a part of, and are called to impact.

Reformation. Tied to what? History. The Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed. Not in a “let’s tack this on to our belief systems and read a few prayers from the Book of Common Prayer” trendiness attitude, but from learning to deeply appreciate what has gone before us, and recognize that we’re stepping into a River that has been flowing through history since Creation.

Great posts, Justin! (And I’m never heard of this Alan guy either…)

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