Sharing our Faith:

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Sharing our Faith Worship and Preaching in a
modern age?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Why are we facing such diversity in our
congregations?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
The Church as an institution Helpful or
unhelpful?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
How can we proclaim the Christian truth in a
world of diversity?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
To what extent should we declare the truth cf
invite people to believe.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Have we overemphasised the place of preaching and
neglected other aspects of worship?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
How do we craft sacred spaces for worship that
allow enable to experience God?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
How do our methods of communication in the Church
relate to those in the world?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
How do our methods of communication and learning
in the Church relate to those in the world?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Starting out Do we live in a modern age?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Introducing postmodernity Its life Jim, but
not as we know it!
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Star Trek NBC 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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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Star Trek Reflecting changes in our community
and attitudes
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
A clash of philosophies What is truth?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
They who have power own the truth and can use
it for their own ends.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Instead, truth is relative no one has a right
to assert or impose an ultimate truth
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Postmodern criticism of science and hope in human
progress
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2 World Wars Awareness of human
Failure Science and reason are no longer a
panacea
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Postmodernist criticism of language
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Language is a slippery tool for communicating the
truth.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
It is easy to be economic with the truth when
using language.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Language is not always the best vehicle to convey
meaning.ie
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
evangelical left-wing Church
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
The meaning of scripture is biased by culture,
politics and ideology.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
There is no thing as the self, God is a
construct, meta- narratives are out
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Postmodernists searching for a different kind of
freedom
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Postmodernists as moody teenagers
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Postmodernist attitudes in the Western world
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
More touchy-feely! Wary of criticising the
beliefs of others (unless fundamentalist)..
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Most people in the West are part modern, part
postmodern, and share a number of attitudes.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
What are the implications for evangelists today?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Tomlinson and the Post-evangelical debate
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
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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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Alternative styles of worship
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Provide space where feelings can be
acknowledged, Share planning of worship, use more
dialogue.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Alternative styles of preaching Is the age of
preaching dead?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
More story. Allow people to assemble the truth
for themselves.
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Roy Clements Are we overreacting?
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Responding to postmodern trends
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
The need for more dialogue
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Dont assume that people have a Christian
background
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
An unembarrased public living of the gospel
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Focusing on the incarnational and the relational
aspects of faith
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Worship and Preaching in a modern age?
Additional Tasks
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Final Question Is postmodernity that bad?