sharing our faith: worship and preaching in a modern age?
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The Church as an institution: Helpful or unhelpful? Worship and Preaching in a modern age?TRANSCRIPT
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Sharing our Faith:
Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
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Why are we facing such diversity in
our congregations?
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The Church as an institution:
Helpful or unhelpful?
Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
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How can we proclaim the Christian truth in a world of diversity?
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To what extent should we declare the truth cf invite people to believe.
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Have we overemphasised the
place of preaching and neglected other
aspects of worship?
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How do we craft ‘sacred spaces’ for worship that
allow enable to experience God?
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How do our methods of communication in the Church relate to those
in the world?
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How do our methods of communication and
learning in the Church relate to those in the
world?
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Starting out: Do we live in a modern age?
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Introducing postmodernity:
“It’s life Jim, but not as we know it!”
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Star TrekNBC
1966-69
Mission:“To boldly go
where no one has
gone before.”
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Original Star Trek Series:3 Main Characters – Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy and Spock.Spock is an alien who thinks logically and does not sense emotion – against his character the weakness of human character can be seen.The series was aired against the backdrop of the cold war.
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1987-1994. New characters: Data, Counsellor Troy
Development of the ‘Prime Directive’
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Start Trek: Voyager, NBC
1995.
Stranded in Space &
making the long journey
home
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Star Trek:Reflecting changes in our community
and attitudes
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A clash of philosophies:
What is ‘truth’?
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They who have power own ‘the truth’ – and
can use it for their own ends.
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Instead, ‘truth’ is relative: no one has a
right to assert or impose an ‘ultimate truth’
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Postmodern criticism of science and hope in human progress
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2 World WarsAwareness of human
Failure
Science and reason are no
longer a panacea
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Postmodernist criticism of language
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Language is a slippery tool for
communicating the truth.
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It is easy to be economic with the truth when using
language.
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Language is not always the best
vehicle to convey meaning….ie
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‘evangelical’‘left-wing’‘Church’
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The meaning of scripture is biased by culture, politics
and ideology.
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There is no thing as ‘the self’, God is a ‘construct’, meta- narratives are out
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Postmodernists searching for a different kind of
freedom
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Postmodernists as moody teenagers:
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Postmodernist attitudes in the
Western world:
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More touchy-feely!Wary of criticising the
beliefs of others (unless fundamentalist)…..
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Most people in the West are part modern, part
postmodern, and share a number of attitudes.
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What are the implications for
evangelists today?
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Tomlinson and the Post-evangelical
debate
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Allow people to think for themselves. Use doubts and
questions, be creative in presenting the gospel.
Do not hide from the issues.
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Alternative styles of worship
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Provide ‘space’ where feelings can be
acknowledged, Share planning of worship, use more dialogue.
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Alternative styles of preaching: Is the age of
preaching ‘dead?’
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More story.Allow people to
assemble the truth for themselves.
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Roy ClementsAre we
overreacting?
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Responding to postmodern trends
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The need for more dialogue
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Don’t assume that people have a
Christian background
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An unembarrased ‘public’ living of the
gospel
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Focusing on the incarnational and
the relational aspects of faith
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Additional Tasks
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Final Question:Is postmodernity
that bad?
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