smells like teen spirit
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smells like teen spirit
introduction:being postmodern
(for Churches that aren’t)
but you noticed...
...thank you
Church attendance
source: mission-shaped churchCray et al
demographics
demographicslocal population (%)
demographicslocal population (%) a Church (%)
what we used to be told
agechildren teenagers grown ups
the
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ratio
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demographicslocal population (%) a Church (%)
so please promise to forget...
“don’t worry,they’ll come back”
the sociological climate
how is itfor you?
“Modern” world-view • where are we?
• who are we?
• what’s wrong?
• what’s the remedy?
• objective world
• homo autonomous
• lack of knowledge
• education
post-Modern world-view • objective world
• homo autonomous
• lack of knowledge
• education
pluralistic world
“we are Legion”
other people’s power
listen to the stories of others
World War generation
• born 1901 to 1924
• confident in science
• conformist
• ideologies ‘modernism, Marxism, capitalism’ etc
builder generation
• born 1925 to 1945
• tend to be conservative
• first to have ‘teen age’
• similar ideologies to parents
boomer generation
• born 1946 to 1963
• grew up in the ‘60s
• immediacy of experience
• education & the pill
• secularism, DIY spirituality
generation X
• born 1964 to 1981
• latchkey kids of divorced parents
• influenced by pop music and TV
• at ease with IT, pluralism and New Age
generation Y
• born 1982 onwards
• now mid-teens to mid-twenties
• grown up with MTV
• addicted to texting and IM
demographicslocal population (%) a Church (%)
demographicslocal population (%) a Church (%)
gen. Yest. 10%
gen. Xest. 18%
...and in 10 years time?local population (%) a Church (%)
gen. Y gen. X
our story
Monkton Farleigh, South Wraxall and Winsley
over to you
(there’s no such thing as a stupid question)