http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=43 Evangelical Resources for the 21st Century Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:05:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=43#comment-138 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:32:19 +0000 http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=43#comment-138 [...] Authenticity is not as simple as a haircut, clothing style, or even drinking the right cup of coffee. It comes from Living the Truth even when the rest of the culture is (in Václav Havel’s words) living within the lie. Authenticity is achieved at the moment when people stop playing by the rules of the cultural game, thereby exposing it as a game, and choose instead Live the Truth regardless of the dictates of culture. [...] […] Authenticity is not as simple as a haircut, clothing style, or even drinking the right cup of coffee. It comes from Living the Truth even when the rest of the culture is (in Václav Havel’s words) living within the lie. Authenticity is achieved at the moment when people stop playing by the rules of the cultural game, thereby exposing it as a game, and choose instead Live the Truth regardless of the dictates of culture. […]

]]> http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=43#comment-124 Wed, 24 May 2006 19:52:22 +0000 http://www.evangelicalresources.org/blog/?p=43#comment-124 I know of the UTD campus and so the illustration is close to home. I wonder, since I don't know you personally, if you buy into any of postmodernism for the church. I can tell that you don't think it is a unity and that is a great point. Do you think churches should try to look postmodern? I would guess not, but what do you think? Dallas has some of its postmodern influences in churches for sure, what does everybody else out there think about adapting postmodern video clips, sound, style, etc? I know of the UTD campus and so the illustration is close to home. I wonder, since I don’t know you personally, if you buy into any of postmodernism for the church. I can tell that you don’t think it is a unity and that is a great point. Do you think churches should try to look postmodern? I would guess not, but what do you think? Dallas has some of its postmodern influences in churches for sure, what does everybody else out there think about adapting postmodern video clips, sound, style, etc?

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