Can I be post- something else?

I'm getting a bit concerned lately with the postmodern worldview - at least the Christian postmodern worldview. It seems too neat and clean for us to have a party for ourselves to celebrate our own enlightenment. We've navigated through the ills of the modern church and have become liberated, so now we dance!

Really, I'm all for dancing, but it does remind me of when I used to listen to "alternative" music in the early 80's - remember when alternative music really was alternative? But then the rest of the world caught on and began listening, which really bugged a lot of us. Henceforth, we had our elitist discussions about this band or that band that we used to listen to "before they were popular." We stroked our own egos as though we were so far ahead of the curve.

Is the current postmodern Jesus follower movement having this kind of thought process now? How many of us would actually be bothered if all of a sudden a bunch of modern churches were to wake up and start doing things "our way" (I know, I know, there's no single "our way")? Would we get into little nostalgic groups to discuss old-school postmodernism?

I'm just concerned that we be about celebrating the right things. Kind of like when Jesus told his disciples not to celebrate that the demons had to obey them, but that they salvation in the first place. Let's be glad and enjoy this postmodern ride we're on together. Let's dance and party and be glad for how we've been liberated from the drudgery of the old ways, but let's not forget a few things. First, this new thing we're doing is a God thing, fueled by his Spirit - he alone deserves the glory for the good stuff. Second, let's remember that we still have a lot to learn . . . and while it may not be cool to admit it, we may have a few things to learn from those we frequently bash so happily. Third, while we encounter this brave new world, we are making our own sets of mistakes . . . and some of those mistakes may not be readily recognizable - the movement of God's Spirit which will one day follow ours will record in their history what morons we were for some of what we're proud of now.

That's all.