29 April 2004
en analyse af kirke i postmoderniteten
Af Tommy Kjær LassenHan beskriver problemet sådan her: "Our churches are locked in a culture and belief system, produced by modernity, that our western world, by and large, no longer inhabits, leaving our churches irrelevant."
Og citerer derefter Alan Jamieson, forfatter til Churchless Faith, "I have suggested that our Christian faith can go through times of serious deconstruction, doubt, critique and darkness. In so doing, space is made and a gap is formed in which God can do a new thing.".
JC argumentere for at det ikke alene drejer sig om en reform af kirkens ydre form og metode, men om at reformere vores forståelse af hvad det vil sige at være kristen i dag og efterleve et discipelskab af Jesus.
Fra konklusionen:
My argument is that the emerging church must engage in rethinking it's content, and then contextualising that by forming churches around missional principles and using the communication tools of our culture.
In practice that might look like;
1. Message: A new theology and understanding of what a Christian is, beyond pray a prayer and go to heaven when you die. A soteriology that connects us to God, the world and each other, and that draws people into a way of life, something to live for.
2. Medium: That message needs to be formed in community, missionally, real mission, not just talking about it. Doing church together, gathering to worship, take the sacraments, teaching, sharing stories, and then relational servant evangelism, investing in the people around us. Seeing shared intimacy with Christ and involvement in our communities.
3. Market: Then relevancy, by doing things a in a way that help people have a dominant peer group that is able to communicate with the culture, using, symbols and language people can connect to.
Jason Clark kommer i øvrigt til Danmark i uge 27, se her.
Torsdag d. 29/04-04 21:16
Tak for linket. Jeg er glad for at jeg fandt den her: Christian Unity as viewed by the Eastern Orthodox Church som udtrykker mine egne tanker ret klart.
Er det ikke, ironi til side, absolut forfærdeligt og en kilde til stor sorg at splittelsen er så enorm?
Søndag d. 02/05-04 20:56
Godt - det må jeg læse en dag. OG ja - det er virkelig trist at os i 'forsoningsbranchen' er så uforsonet men hinanden.