tell me the five postmodern tenants.
Postmodern Tenant #1: Truth is power, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Therefore, absolute truth is absent or unattainable.
Postmodern Tenant #2: Our identity is not given or determined, but passively constructed.
Postmodern Tenant #3: Language is not neutral, and shapes the way we see truth.
Postmodern Tenant #4: There is no wholly impartial, assumption-free approach to truth. An inherited worldview, a set of background prepositions, always shapes one’s interpretation. Truth must be shared as story, not fact.
Postmodern Tenant #5: history and traditions are another form of power, which pigeon hole us into only one way of seeing the world.
tell me the six marks of a robust Gospel.
- A robust gospel is a story
- A robust gospel deals with a robust problem
- A robust gospel is personal
- A robust gospel is communal
- A robust gospel includes the whole story – the life, death, resurrection & spirit of Jesus
- A robust gospel demands faith and works
What are the four characteristics that make up a practice?
- A practice is distinguished from the skills that makes it up
- A practice is distinguished from the skills that makes it up
- By nature, it is a socially established activity
- It may be “systematically extended”
What are the three applications for collaboration?
- Listening to the whisper and nudges of the Holy Spirit
- Asking powerful questions to discover
- Collaborate with God
What are the barrieres to rebuilding friendship
- -Having few or no genuine spiritual friendship with unchurched people
- Having a mental script about proper evangelism
What are the problems with Christian language?
- Our language is often cliché
- Our language is often divisive
- Our language is often abstract or metaphorical
- Our language often doesn’t address the world’s robust problems
Why are stories important in a postmodern world?
- We are called to be storytellers
- Stories are the only container big enough to carry truth
- In a postmodern world, interpretation flows through storytelling
What are the reasons discipleship is an important part of evangelism?
- It highlights experience over knowledge
- Postmodernism blurs evangelism & discipleship
- It’s transformational
Nihilism
absolute trust is not available because it does not exist.
Relativism
is the idea that truth varies from person to person (radical relativism), or from society to society (cultural relativism).
Constructivism
is a variation on relativism, constructivism is one that is very common among postmodern, which says that basic questions cannot be resolved because truth is made, or constructed rather than discovered. Will claim there is no moral truth but we have to live together so let’s agree on one thing.
Pragmatism
says that truth is just whatever helps us get around in life.
Skeptical postmodernism
affirm that some absolute moral truth exists; however, they have a low opinion on our capacity to graph that truth and apply it to our own situations
Practical realism
is a very similar to sceptical postmodernism. Both believe that there is absolute moral truth and both believe that it is impossible to get at it. The difference is that while sceptical postmodern believe the inability to get at absolute moral truth negates any ability to apply it faithfully, practical realists believe that we have the capacity to understand it well enough to be confident in our moral choices.
premodern idea of truth
truth is intuitive and universal
modern idea of truth
truth is discovered and universal
postmodern idea of truth
truth is discovered and constructed
What technological advancements aided modern and postmodern worldviews?
Transportation, computer and technology
What are the reasons we witness in community?
- -community is a great place for new believer to nurture their faith
- -help people to belong so that they can come to believe
- -it takes the whole community to help transform someone’s life
- -the best way we can witness the fullness of the reality of the Kingdom of God is in community
