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3. Modern
• Microscope
– “I think, therefore
I am” -- Descartes
– Reality is
observable,
dissectible, and
explainable
4. Postmodern
• Kaleidoscope
– “an ever-changing
mosaic of pieces of
broken glass that is
beautiful when light
shines through it”
• Erwin McManus
– Reality is evolving and
understood through
brokenness and
interrelationships
5. From Modern to Postmodern
• Modern
– Conquest and Control
– Mechanistic
– Analytical
– Secular-scientific
– “Knowing God”
• Postmodern
– Conservation
– Organic, ecological
– Holistic, passionate
– Spiritual-scientific
– “Experiencing God”
6. From Modern to Postmodern
Modern values
• Excellence (tightly run
worship experience)
• Cognitive and conceptual
learning through one-way
preaching
• Sometimes, the removal of
ancient or spiritual
• Going to church
Postmodern values
• Avoiding any sense of
performance (relationship and
chemistry trump excellence)
• Experiential learning through
interactive teaching
– encounter trumps information
– Palette of senses
• Sometimes, the desire of roots,
history, and supernatural
• The church “going”
7. Overlapping Waves
• Modernity and
postmodernity are
ebbing and flowing
within our culture
– Within individuals
– In congregations
8. Used car religion?
• “Given its bad press,
Christianity is to postmodern
people a “used car” religion.
They want to “check it out”
thoroughly & comparatively,
asking the same tough
questions we’d ask of a
used car salesman.”
• Brian McLaren
9. How to sell a used car …
• Space and Time
– what God made
when wanting to
create beings
capable of being in a
relationship with
himself
– “you can’t hurry love”
14. The Kinneret Sardine
Magadala was the fishing center for sardines.
Probably the “small fish” that Jesus used to
feed the 4,000.
15. Bliny group- Barbels
•Gathered at south end of Galilee in spring
•Ate sardines
•In summer, nested near shore to reproduce
•Popular for Sabbath feasts
20. Today, our job in “fishing” is to
look at what types of fish there
are, and determine what types of
nets we should use.
21. More than one strategy
“(1) Admonish the idlers,
(2) encourage the faithful,
(3) help the weak,
be patient with them all.”
1 Thessalonians 5:14
• #1,2. Reminding
people who know
better to return
– Circuit, Billy Graham
• #3. Dealing with people
who have no baseline
– Happens through
“relationship” moreso
than “event”
22. One Net:
The 3 Great Human Values
• The True, the Good,
and the Beautiful
• Moderns have
responded to a focus on
the Truth
• Postmoderns will
respond better to a
focus on the Good and
the Beautiful
23. Another Net:
Belonging Precedes Becoming
• Opposite of modernity
– Member-first, then included
• Rhetoric of inclusion rather
than exclusion
– Jesus threatened people
with inclusion
• “People don’t become
disciples in the right order
any more.”
– George Hunter, How to
Reach Secular People, 1990
25. 7 Factors in
Postmodern Disciple-Making
• Here are some
things that allow the
flourishing relational
context of time and
space in which
people can become
disciples of Jesus
Christ:
26. 1. The relational factor
• “We’d better learn to
count not just
conversions but
conversations.”
• Brian McLaren
• Seeing evangelism as a
relational dance rather
than a win/lose conquest
– Don’t press for decision
now, just keep the
conversation going
• Takes 10+ for conversion
27. 2. The narrative factor
• It’s about
– their story (listen!)
– your story (share)
– and God’s story (proclaim)
• The Gospel must be
presented in story form
rather than a set of facts,
rules, propositions, laws
– Bible itself has God speak
to us via prophets, poets,
philosophers, priests
28. 3. The communal factor
• “The greatest
hermeneutic of the
Gospel is a community
that lives by it.”
– Leslie Newbigin
• Belonging precedes
becoming precedes
believing
29. 4. The process factor
• Instead of:
– Decision-Discipleship
– Evangelism-Follow up
• Think: “disciple-making”
– Understand but collapse the
Engel scale
– A holistic process
– Space/time
• Teach “how” rather than
“what” to believe
• (McLaren: Finding Faith)
30. THE ENGEL SCALE
Spiritual Decision Process ModelETERNITY
+3
+2
+1
- -
-1
-2
-3
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8 Awareness of Supreme Being but no effective
knowledge of Gospel.
Initial awareness of Gospel.
Awareness of fundamentals of Gospel.
Grasp of implications of Gospel.
Positive attitude toward Gospel.
Personal problem recognition.
DECISION TO ACT
Repentance and faith in Christ.
A “NEW CREATION”
Post-decision evaluation.
Incorporation into Body.
Conceptual and behavioral
growth begins.
31. 5. The Holy Spirit factor
• Believe that God is already
“out there” and at work in
everyone (Blackaby)
– There are others on the case
besides you!
• Others in the church
• Not just in church but also culture
• God is always trying to “get in
or get out” of peoples’ lives
32. 6. The learning factor
• See evangelism as part of
my own discipleship, not
just the other person’s
• “There is enough bad in the best
of us and good in the worst of us
that it behooves all of us to
speak no ill about any of us.”
• Abraham Lincoln
33. 7. The missional factor
• See evangelism as
recruiting people for
God’s mission here
on earth, not just
souls for heaven
• Gospel of John:
eternal life begins now!
34. Conclusions
Church leaders must move from inside the
office to being leaders outside office walls
and outside of the Christian bubble.
Don’t expect or try to get emerging
generations in your bubble.
(And quit evaluating pastors on “office hours!”)
35. Conclusions
Beyond “Soul-Winning?”
1. Postmodern
evangelism is not
conquest.
– Change Language:
crusade, spiritual
warfare, “taking” a
city, winning the lost
• “not-yet-Christians?”
“Normal people
2. Giving people:
• a relationship
(conversations)
• space/time …
… moves us toward
evangelism as disciple-
making.
36. God may not even be asking you
to net emerging generations
since he already has you fishing
for another kind of fish.
38. You do need to love emerging
generations and have your
heart broken for them –
they need you.
39. “As he approached
Jerusalem and saw
the city, he wept over
it and said, “If you,
even you, had known
on this day what
would bring you
peace…”
- Luke 19:41
40. “When He saw the
crowds He had
compassion on them,
because they were
harassed and
helpless,like sheep
without a shepherd.”
Matthew 9:36-38
41. “What I keep coming back to, is that the alternative is
unthinkable. For anybody to sit idly by and watch 1/3 or
40% of the congregation disappear, it is unconscionable
….You can’t do nothing. Whatever it is that you try, at least
you will be able to stand before Christ one day and say we
gave it our best shot…. We never quite figured it out, but
we certainly did try!”
- Bill Hybels
42. Postmodern Personal Evangelism
Dr. John P. Chandler
Courageous Churches
Virginia Baptist Mission Board
john.chandler@vbmb.org
Copy right John P. Chandler, 2004