What in the world are they thinking?

You may never have heard much of postmodernism as a term, but that doesn’t mean that you are not encountering it and struggling with it.  And, more than you realize, you have been affected by it.  You may have sung songs with postmodernist assumptions in church last Sunday.

Where did this strange dress, hair, music, and art come from?

Why do young people so easily part from their traditions?

Why do we win debates without winning converts?

Why did the Republican Party lose the presidency?

Why are people so insensitive to conviction?

Why do conservative proof texts not make new conservatives?

Why does the pastor who is right lose his people to the pastor who is nice?

Why does apologetics have to change its approach?

Why do political liberals not take terrorism or communism seriously?

It is getting more difficult to convince people of anything, even though our reasons are better than ever.

People literally don’t think the same.  The way many people arrive at their most important beliefs could hardly be called thought at all.  When we lose we don’t know why we lost, and when we win we don’t know why we won. 

It’s not that we don’t know the answers.  The problem is that we don’t know the questions.  And it’s not easy to find out what the questions are because most of the time they are not asked but assumed. 

The seminar “Christian Mission in Postmodernity” is available for your church or Bible study group.  Contact us for more information.

See the page entitled courses for a description of the course "Christian Mission in Postmodernity."

A CD with a sample lecture is available for this course.