Sessions Overview What is Post-Modernism? The Power of the Gospel in the Hearts of Post-Moderns

Sessions Overview

1.What is Post-Modernism?

2.The Power of the Gospel in the Hearts of Post-Moderns

3.Reaching Post-Moderns with the Truth in Love

4.Designing Church to Disciple Post-Moderns

Apologetics for a Post-Modern World

•(v6-8) Our message is a mystery

• What does “mystery” mean?

•(v10) God reveals to us through His Spirit

•(v13) Our message isn’t human, its spiritual

•(v14) Natural humans do not and cannot understand

•(v15-16) Christians have God’s perspective, Christ’s mind

1 Corinthians 2

Tradition

Christianity: the Legs of the Table

Christianity

Scripture

Spirit

Community

Tradition

Christianity: Checks-and-Balances

Scripture Spirit

Community

Tradition Spirit Scripture Community

Tradition SpiritScripture Community

Today:

How do I best present the Truth from God in a tone that is loving?

“Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of

teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we

will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ.”

- Ephesians 4:14-15 (NIV 2011)

•(v19) I can do whatever I want with my life

•(v19) Why would let myself be labeled?

•(v20-22) One man, various cultures

• How far do we go in taking up cultural norms?

• How do we ensure people don’t think we’re faking?

• What is our goal in participating in culture?

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

•(v22) “I have become all things to all men, so that I may

by all means save some!”

•(v23) What do I lose by not expressing the Good News

within my culture’s context?

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

•(v24-27) Participating in the Games

•(v24) Win the race (compare to v20b and v21b)

•(v25) The Game of living the Good News is about

Eternity (compare “imperishable wreath” to Phil. 4:1 or 1 Thes. 2:19)

1 Corinthians 9:19-27

•(v26) “Beating the Air” = not connecting our Truth to

our cultural context

•(v27) “Discipline” … living this way, how does it take

discipline?

1 Corinthians 9:19-27