Friday, June 06, 2003
I just spent the past three days in denominational church planting training. Good points and bad points. A little redundant given that I already went to the
Acts 29 Bootcamp in January. I was the token postmodern (even though I don't accept that title). Navigating the denominational waters continues to be a trippy experience for me - in some cases I get an honest sense that the people who work with church planters are eager for people like me to enter their world, and they're glad I'm there. In other cases, I get a defensive response - I ate dinner with one of the training presenters and a couple of fellow planters one of the nights and ended up in an hour and a half discussion of the postmodern approach to truth. It was interesting for me, but exhausting. I'm not a philosopher, a theologian, a literary critic, or apologist for postmodernity . . . but that was the role I was asked to play. I felt like Neo from
A New Kind of Christian - just not as smart or patient.
