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World View / Perspective Nature of Truth Nature of Faith Relating the Gospel Worship Structure Worship Music Architecture DATE COMMUNICATION MODE CHURCH TRADITION LITURGICAL ORAL 4000 BC - 1500 AD DIALECTIC: An open-ended point/counterpoint “dialogue" that creates the context for continual discovery. The auditory character of dialogue creates an intimate, connected relationship to the universe. RELATIONAL: Understanding and truth are inherently connected with the speaker. The message and messenger cannot be separated. TRUST: Faith is not a concept but a personal promise and faith's substance is found in the credibility of the one making the promise. The Hebrew word for “believe" actually communicates complete reliance upon what was spoken. RE-ENACTMENT: A symbolic re-enactment of the Gospel becomes a mystical drama and connection to Christ, creating sacred time and sacred place. LITURGY: A ceremony centered on ritual, symbols and the common “mystical" experience of the Eucharist. CHANT: Simple songs originally sung around scriptures, creating a mystical quality where the position of the notes held significance and augmented the content. ORNATE / FOREGROUND: A physical expression of the heavenly realm — a sacred place. REFORMED PRINT 1500 AD - 1950 AD CELEBRATION BROADCAST 1950 AD - 2000 AD LOGIC: Writing's sequential structure and linear progression provides the foundation for rational logic. The visual character of print creates a detached, discriminating relationship to the universe. RELATIVISM: Reasoning has shifted away from “either/or” conclusions. It has become more important to understand how one arrives at the conclusion (the process) than the conclusion itself. The experiential character of broadcast media creates a subjective existential relationship to the universe. PRINCIPLE: Truth is abstracted from its source and is embodied in its content. Truth and revelation produce intellectual conclusions, which instruct and discipline the human will (heart). EXISTENTIAL: Truth is a process that has to be personally validated, no longer gaining its authority based on the credibility of an outside source or in the substance of its content. BELIEF: Faith is experienced as a concept with content as opposed to a relationship. The content of faith creates a moral structure providing discipline to the soul. CONVICTION: Faith becomes a point of tangibility, a verifiable moment between the person and God. RE-TELLING: A logical presentation of historical evidence and biblical texts, word studies in scripture to validate the Gospel story. PERFORMANCE: A celebration of faith — drama, personal testimony, preaching — to help you sense the relevance of the message. The intent is to make the Gospel “hit home" to reach the audience where they live. SERVICE: A meeting centered on singing “classic" hymns, confirming doctrinal truth in scripture and preaching the gospel. PROGRAM: An event centered on celebration-style worship, motivational preaching and personal revelation. HYMN: Complex melodies and harmonies aided by a printed system of writing music. Hymns communicated complex truths of the faith. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” SONG: Simple content and complex rhythms aided by amplification and numerous electronic instruments shape this style of music. Songs express more relational than doctrinal subject material. RATIONAL / BACKGROUND: Designed to focus on the effective preaching of the word. Only primary symbols are used so there is no distraction from the purpose of the building. Rev. 1:8 (NASB) PROMOTIONAL / CENTER STAGE: Designed as theater to provide full view of the participants. The space creates an audience/performer relationship. © Rex Miller The Millennial Matrix INCLUSIVE INTERACTIVE 2000 AD - FUTURE SYSTEMS THINKING: New assumptions describe reality as complex and interconnected. The fluid nature of interactive media reflects a reality requiring the ability to deal with variable events governed by overarching system patterns. ARCHETYPAL: There is a neutral or skeptical outlook toward the content of truth in favor of finding a larger context. Themes of truth work better than formulas in a complex, rapidly changing, interconnected universe. FAITHFUL SKEPTICISM: Faith will be experienced as a many-layered journey. There will be great faith in the medium. Certainty of faith will be viewed as naïve or dishonest, while struggling with faith will be seen as a deeper expression of faith — “Lord I believe, help my unbelief." SIMULATION: Multiple venues and a variety of media will be used like a prism to refract the truth of the Gospel into a wide spectrum of insight. A single-point message will be illustrated seven ways for 20 minutes. GATHERING: Designed to be an interactive collaboration without preconceived outcomes. FUSION: A blend of musical forms. There will also be simpler services with “unplugged" acoustical worship balancing highly technical productions. Worship will move from audience participation to audience collaboration in a stimulating and intimate experience. BARRIER-FREE / BACKDROP: Effective buildings will have an open-ended nature, facilitating and encouraging change. They will be content-rich and provide a multisensorial experience. MEDIEVAL • Manuscript/Oral Communication • 312 Constantine — unites Rome, converts to Christianity • 400 St. Augustine — mystic/theologian St. Augustine M ystica l Martin Luther MODERN • 1452 Printing Press — transforms communication • 1492 Columbus — discovery of the New World • 1517 Luther — 95 Theses, Protestant Reformation • 1564 Galileo — origins of modern science and mathematics • 1611 King James Version — God is object to study • 1644 Descartes — “Cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am) Empirical Hierarchy of Needs END OF MODERNITY • Broadcast — transforms communication • 1872 Darwin — man explains his origin • 1927 Freud — “man creates God” • 1954 Maslow — Hierarchy of Needs • Radical Individualism — Consumerism Internet POSTMODERN • Internet — transforms communication • Nietzsche — Nihilism (loss of meaning) • Derrida — Deconstructionism • Popular Culture — media influences, Contact, The Sixth Sense, Touched by An Angel, The Celestine Prophecy, Oprah’s Spirit Moment Enlightened Mysticism © Brad Cecil, Ministry Transition Timeline LEADERSHIP N E T W O R K • 800-765-5323 • www.leadnet.org
N E X T V O L U M E 6 2 N D Q UA R T E R 2 0 0 0 The Mission al Church B E I N G T H E C H U R C H I N T O D A Y ’ S W O R L D b y M i c h a e l D . W a r d e n MA N Y O F T H E E S T A B L I S H E D P A R A D I G M S B Y W H I C H C H U R C H E S H A V E O P E R A T E D F O R D E C A D E S C A N N O L O N G E R S U P P O R T A P O P U L A C E T H A T I S L O O K I N G F O R T R U T H O U T S I D E T H E “ B O X” C R E A T E D B Y O U R P R E D E C E S S O R S . In the last half of the 20 th century, the American religious landscape was transformed. Commitment to traditional church structures steadily waned, while at the same time our hunger for spiritual fulfillment inched its way into the forefront of the cultural dialog. For the first time in our history as a nation,the concept of Truth began to lose its status as an independent reality. Instead, Truth became relative, dependent on an individual’s circumstance or perspective. This is a sign of the times…only one among many. The culture is shifting.And many of the established paradigms by which churches have operated for decades can no longer support a populace that is looking for Truth outside the “box” created by our predecessors. By necessity, the 21st-century church is becoming more flexible and orga n i c, a d a p t i n g and changing to engage the culture that surrounds it. This new environment is giving rise to a fundamental “r e -d e s i g n” of how the Church carries out its mission. To be effe c t i v e ,c h u r c h e s once thought (and many still think) that all they needed to do was maintain certain expected church progra m s ,provide a s a n c t u a ry where members could gather and w o r s h i p ,p e rhaps send out work teams into the community, or support missionaries at various locations around the globe. E f fective missional churches in today’s culture are breaking new ground, t rying new approaches, and going back to the blueprint provided in Scripture to show them how to become an authentic “city on a hill that cannot be hidden.” While their approaches may differ widel y, t h e y share at least four essential chara c t e r i s t i c s : Crossing traditional boundaries. E f fective missional churches pursue partnerships that cross traditional boundaries— such as denominations, e t h n i c i ,g t ye o g raphy and s o c i o-e c o n o m i c These s . churches tend to see t h e m s elves as a part of the larger expression of Go d ’s presence in the community,city and worl d. Gauging success by transformed lives. E f fective missional churches regularly evaluate their own effectiveness based on the tra n s fo r m a- tion of p e o p l e’s lives and the community. T h e y’r e constantly asking the questions, “What difference does it make that we are here” and “How do we measure our effectiveness in the church body, t h e community and the worl d ” Impacting the culture for the Kingdom. E f fective missional churches find creative ways to e m b race the culture in which they exist.They don’t s ell out to culture,but rather seek to understand it so they can engage it and impact it for the Kingdom. I t’s a mindset that says,“My church is more than just my local congrega t i o n it ; has a broader purpose and role within the culture.” Planting new churches and training church leaders. E f fective missional churches adopt an intentional strategy of starting new churches and tra i n i n g l e a d e r s .Missional churches are involved in planting new churches and mentoring “l e a r n e r” churches in creative ways. So how are they doing it In ways you might never expect.
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