bumming off another post
Here is something that I posted on 2nd-storey the other day….
I am reading Leonard Sweet’s Post-Modern Pilgrims: First Century Passion for the 21st Century World - here is a piece that caught my eye as I work with both youth (this summer), college ministry (I’m coming Kansas), and yet am a part of a body of believers that embodies many generations - and both moderns and postmoderns.
‘I plead guilty, and am guilty, of being a man of his time. We are all time travelers. Even Jesus existed in time. The question I have to face in my wn ministry is this: Will I live the time God has given me? Or will I live a time I would prefer to have? Postmodern culture is my here and now. I will take the church back to the cyberage, or will perish in the attempt. I live my life between two metaphors: (1) the pioneer who has arrows in his back, and (2) the slow buffalo who always gets shot I am constantly aware that the difference between a leader and a martyr is about three paces.’
(Please don’t misunderstand this to mean that Sweet expects the church to become completely postmodern. He is however aware that the church has completely neglected postmodernity - and is calling the church to realize the times in which it exists - a call to the greater cuture around it - but not a call to conformity -
in fact Sweet uses the term no po mo in his notes to refer to the church saying no the postmodern culture.)