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| Regardless of the type of worship service your church will have, its main purpose is to answer this vital question and show people that Jesus is the real truth. This must be the ultimate goal, but not everyone agrees it’s that simple. Well-known prison evangelist, Chuck Colson says, “People are beginning to realize postmodern presuppositions simply don’t work. And what are those presuppositions? Postmodernists claim we can have no ‘grand metanarrative’ that makes sense of reality. Since there’s no such thing as truth, all principles are merely personal preferences. If one’s worldview is true, it has to conform to reality—to our real-life experiences”. Then let us make sure that postmoderns have a real-life experience with the Truth—Jesus Christ— who can transform their worldview but more importantly, transform their heart. If we are going to help people encounter God the Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, we will have to inhabit our culture at a much deeper level than has been suggested over the years. We are going to have to go much farther than pop praise choruses, sitcom dramas, token prayers, and how-to messages. Peter demonstrates in Acts 17:28 that even the poets of his day were utilized to tell of Jesus. This will need to become our norm: faith communities that utilize the “outside world” to enhance and further worship of the Creator. Examples include poets, the stories, the films, the music, and mindset of our time. Maggi Dawn continues, “Creating sacred space in our postmodern culture - a place of discontinuous change, deconstructed stories, decimated hope, knee-jerk irony, and ubiquitous self-doubt - will mean both unprecedented listening and uncompromised liturgy”. This means we will need to engage all of the senses. Church can no longer be a “spectator sport”. We cannot continue with a “ministering to” paradigm. We must “minister with”. It is this paradox that will occupy our learning with each other. The Bible tells us to love the Lord with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind, and all our strength. I think we must be positioned to make this happen in our worship services. Continued... |
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