The Quest for Community"eBay may just be the closest experience of small-town America available to postmoderns. Where else can they find people with similar interests? Where else can they be drawn into community around a single purpose? Where else can they tell the stories most central to who they are and find people eager to hear them? Where else can they participate so fully and have their lives changed by the experience? Nowhere else. Except, perhaps, the church." - Leonard Sweet describing the popularity of eBay among postmoderns. Christianity Today/Leadership Journal, Fall 1999.
Here is the link. Look it up before they erase it:
http://www.wels.net/cgi-bin/site.pl?2617&collectionID=717&contentID=1627&shortcutID=2187
ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Too Sweet for Me - WELS
