GenX Post Mission Reviewed
Over at PostKiwi’s Generational Posts I’m working through a review of PostMission, the work of GenX writers from global mission agencies in 2001. They engage with a mix of generational theory and postmodern theory as they engage with the conflicts between younger and older missionaries.
One paragraph of the review provoked a response from Phil Johnson.
My summary
“They examine the modernist Evangelical focus on individual morality, with its preoccupation with sexual sin. Holiness, they say, has been reduced to personal individual sins linked with sexual behaviour, dress codes, divorce, alcohol taboos, tithing, abortion, swearing, and dirty jokes. Postmoderns are more concerned with moral issues such as weapons of mass destruction, environmental destruction, womens’ rights, Third World debt, racism, exploitation of child labour.”
Phil: The perspective that evangelicals have been fixated on personal individual issues (especially sexual mores) is partly true but also runs the risk of misreading and distorting history in evangelicalism…
One Response to “GenX Post Mission Reviewed”
By fernando on May 27, 2005 | Reply
the missing link in your discussion thus far, is that the moral issues you summarise as “postmodern” were, for most of the 20th century, owned by the liberal wing of the church. I was a member at Bloomsbury Baptist Church in London (one of my few claims to fame is to be able to say I preached from the same stage where Martin Luther King Jr once spoke). That church was ALL ABOUT the issues you summarise as postmodern, yet it was the MOST modern (and culturally conservative) church I have ever known.