I was writing to a old friend of mine from College who is headed to France in a few days with an evangelical missions organization...some of my thoughts:

For me the central issue that the book pointed out what that the shift from a "modern world" (1500-2000AD) to a "post-modern" world (2000-?) is more monumental than I think we evangelical ever might have dreamed or expected. When you get the book you find a helpful chart that highlights the massive changes that propelled the world into the modernity (chap. 2 or 3?) and the results that followed from 1500 - 2000. The author then points out that the same changes are afoot today and are bringing radical change to our modern world. The crazy thing is post-modernity may well be just a door mat into the ???? future...

What it comes down to is just as the Christian faith morphed completely in the modern age (largely because of the divinely inspired Martin Luther and many others) it will again or is again, in whatever age we are entering into. For instance the modern age organized and analyzed the faith, the church, and the theology (ex: systematic theology). Our modern mega churches and mega denominations and mega doctrinal statements and distinctives reflect this.

If the Christian faith is going to survive (which we know it will) then it is going to have to be re-shaped for the postmodern and post "that" age that is becoming. It will take divinely inspired men and women.

- posted by Jacob B. @ 11:39 AM