The dialogue of reimaging church is exciting to me as I've said. However, it leads to extremism. I always get nervous when this comes about.
...didn't "postmodernism" spring up as an extreme, a rebellion against the extremist modernity movement? A movement of absolutism, but instead of balancing it out, has been met with a postmodernity relativism? My favorite conversation involves finding a balance in these two.
As annoyed as I was at APU for trying to instill the "Wesleyan Quadrilaterial" into my stream of thought, I appreciate it these days. To understand a balance of Scripture-Tradition-Reason-Experience is invaluable, and necessary for an objective evalution of process.
To throw away the years of thought that have gone into the evoluation of church could be devastating. However, I do understand that we need to consider how humanity and habit have distorted the authentic community that God desires for us.
What I am trying to say is that I get nervous when the organized church is abandoned altogether. Conversely, I get extremely nervous when some are so caught up in their organized church that they can't see outside of/imagine Christian community outside of their church campus.
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I am currently reading...
- "It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It" by Craig Groeschel
- "90 Minutes in Heaven"
- "The Old Man and the Sea"
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