Welcome to The Future of Ministry in the Post-Modern World

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Welcome toThe Future of Ministry in the
Post-Modern World
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The Future of Ministry in the PostModern World
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The Practicing CongregationImagining a New Old
Church Diana Butler Bass
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Established Old style
Mainline Traditional/Evangelical
Liberal Conservative Practicing
Congregations Emergent Church
Intentional
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Ideals Established Intentional
Image Chapel CommunityGod Father, Ruler,
Judge Love, Spirit, With Us Congregants Members
, family Companions, pilgrimsMinistry Paid
professionals Shared, mentoring,
teachingEducation Info about faith Formation in
Xian practicesTheology Seminary-expertise Communa
l task, experientialPiety Private,
devotional Expressive, spiritualitySpace Dwellin
g, place Fluid, dynamic, journeyTradition Inheri
tance, custom Process, wisdom, flexibleGoal Pres
ervation, salvation Encounter, way of life
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A Third Axis Modernity // Post-modernity
A shift in worldview in the way we see
Reality
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Modernity Postmodernity The Quest for One
Truth Waking up to many TruthsOne Voice Many
VoicesSingleness MultiplicityOne
recipe/solution Manypossibilities/solutio
ns We experience God, Many differing
experiencesworship, scripture in Rationality
is the capacity basically the same way of the
whole human being
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GI Generation
Consumer Generation
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Deferred Pleasure
Instant Gratification
vs.
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Group Orientation
Individual Orientation
vs.
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Assumptions of Sameness
Assumptions of Difference
vs.
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Spirituality of Place
Spirituality of Pilgrimage
vs.
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What we need more than anything right now is to
nurture a nostalgia for the future that is at
least as powerful as our nostalgia for the past,
so we spend less time reflecting about the world
as it used to be and more time wondering about
what the world is becoming. Eamonn Kelly

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A 18th Century vision for a secular
modernityThree fundamental principles Reason
will trump belief The material will trump the
spiritual Humanity will trump nature
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Whos Afraid of Postmodernism? James K. A. Smith
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Whos Afraid of Postmodernism? Slogan
One There is nothing outside the text
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Whos Afraid of Postmodernism? Slogan
Two Postmodernity is incredulity toward
meta-narratives
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Whos Afraid of Postmodernism? Slogan
Three Power is Knowledge
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Bridge People
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The Future of Ministry in the PostModern World