Response from Winfield Bevins
Postmodernism, The Church, and The Future
A Pneuma Review discussion about how the church should respond to postmodernism
I do have a few things to say about the postmodern discussion in The Pneuma Review. In my opinion, there has not been given any practical or relevant answers for how the church should engage our postmodern world. Many of the panelists have dealt with theory and not praxis. In many ways, there seems to be a denial that postmodernism even exists. If churches refuse to engage the culture whether they be Pentecostal, Baptists, even Catholic they will lose their ability to reach the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The church is one of the last institutions to acknowledge and engage the new world of postmodernism. Many Pentecostal and Charismatic churches have chosen to respond to the changes in our culture with apathy and denial and therefore have become irrelevant to the culture around us. Once we begin to deny cultural change we fall into the danger of institutionalism.
The Holy Spirit calls and empowers the church to engage culture. God is culturally relevant, in the Old testament, New Testament, and now in the 21st century.
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Read Pastor Bevin’s article, “Retro Faith: A Christian Response to Postmodernism,” in the Spring 2007 issue of The Pneuma Review.
Category: Ministry, Summer 2008
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