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Young Leader Networks Should We Use Candles As the Young Leader Networks manager, I hear one question on a regular basis (if three months counts as a regular basis). It is a multilayered question of what to do with Generation X or Generation Y. How can we get them or keep them at our church What about postmoderns After all, when postmodernism reaches popular culture, most people wake up and smell the roses. On the one hand, I understand the concern. Why is it that everyone is spiritual but not many of them are attending Christian churches Why is it that we can create large, efficient disciplemaking churches that rarely last more than a generation Why is it that filmmakers are now the theologians Why is it that people in the greatest story of all cannot find themselves in the story or tell the story There are plenty of places for us to point and say, “There is a megachurch and don’t we all want to be like them. Oh, and by the way, I need a few things along the way to compensate for the emerging cultural changes. Do I want to do a more formal liturgy How about using candles as a mood enhancer or sensory stimulator for our services How about getting some young guy to run the music” It is hard to look at any piece of the media right now without hearing about the Internet. Let me jump right in there with the other 2.6 billion people talking about it. What I find interesting in all the hype about the Internet is the differing ways in which it is viewed. Few emerging companies are not considering the Internet as a part of their business plan. But there is at least one distinction in the orientation of the many. There are the companies that are saying “We need to be on the web.” And there are companies that are saying, “Our business is the web.” The latter operates from a whole new business orientation. They are not just trying to catch up to the hyped opportunities in cyberspace. The idea of our world changing and transitioning is not news to most of us. The question is “Are we merely going to try to catch up to the hyped opportunities or will we consider church leadership and what constitutes the spiritual life from a whole new orientation” Fortunately we have many people recognizing that the orientation of church work needs to change in order to lead as Christians in an emerging post-Christian world. We live in a ruthlessly pragmatic world that asks, “Will it work” before it asks, “Is it right” This time in our history demands that we take a step back from pure pragmatism and become students of culture like missionaries, students of theology like church leaders of old, students of sacred and spiritual things like the monks of old, and students of ideas that help stimulate right practices in whole new settings. In Acts we see churches’ theology emerge from practice. The early leaders are able to adjust their practice after reflection and consideration (just ask Peter or the church leaders in Acts 15). Now we have 2,000 years of church history that has changed many times 9 through the ages. More than that, we have well-developed theologies that have categorized things to the nth degree. We do not operate objectively any more. We see things through well-defined grids that men have created. Therefore, we cannot simply have theology emerge out of practice because we have so many forms of practice. We need new ideas and new thoughts to inform our theologies and practices and vice versa. What is needed are reflective practitioners (a term stolen from Donald Schon) and people not afraid to experiment with new forms of ministry and church leadership. We need leaders who call our culture to transformation. We do not need any more reproductions of franchised church models or culturally driven forms of church. We need bright minds that think about our global culture in relationship to the ancient story of God in the Bible and then return to their places of ministry to experiment with forms that emerge out of this collective thinking. At the Young Leader Networks, we want to bring together the best thinkers and practitioners in settings where our collaborative learnings inform our practice of Christianity in local places. Take a look at our website and see where you can contribute. by Jason Mitchell, manager, Young Leader Networks www.youngleader.org
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