Be a thermostat, not a thermometer

Josh Moody  |  Features  |  Letter from America
Date posted:  1 Aug 2007
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So I can never tell how much any one issue is becoming controversial in the ‘broader’ church — after all, we all live in villages, so to speak.

But one ‘emerging’ issue seems to The Emergent Church (though I bet they’d rather we say ‘the emergent church’; postmodern sensitive dudes seem to like lower case grammar, just read any McLaren book).

To be fair to the controversy, the matter is not entirely straightforward by any means. A lot of people seem to be fed up with contemporary church forms. Our current culture is moving rapidly more postmodern. By postmodern I don’t mean only more relativist (every road leads to God), but also acute insight into power relations, concern for softer or different moral matters, and in general a lack of confidence in authoritative authority statements or figures.

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