EXPERIENCE AND STRATEGIES
Postmodern functionality is in the process of being forced into the position of re-evaluating the methods concerning enacting efficient evangelistic efforts in the cultural mix of the un-redeemed. Effectiveness is now determined by entransitory qualities of transmission that bridge the gaps of credulity and message content in the almost exclusively rationalistic presentational means of expositing the message. Abandonment philosophies that reject the personal equation of Christian moorings personify the moral dilemma of the Enlightenments let down of hope for universal advancement of human qualities that is now so eloquently being witnessed in the postmodern attempts at dialogue. Caught in this nihilistic vortex of social disillusionment of the systemic dis-accreditation of Christian worth, there has now risen, almost Phoenix like in the midst of the mental carnage that has been strewn amok, new vocative expressions of personal encounters of the divine sort, crying out like mystical voices from the wildernesses abyss.
God is being found among the very portals of educational queries that had purported to estrange Him when the mood that had considered rejection to be the vogue form or proper mannerism was the prevailing ideology. A broadening array of new endeavors is forcing the previously dilapidated model of open dialogue, as found in the guise of logical assumptions constrictors, to once again be pursued. Engaging agnostics, skeptics, atheists and extraneous religious voices for comparison and input, Christian communities on campuses across America are creating a neuvoux experience of communicative duration: open-ended dialogue designed to incorporate alternative views with the penultimate objective of demonstrating Christianities superiority.
Rather than falling into a pretentious denial of other necessities existence, this bold new world of apologetics embraces the spirit of Pauline extemporaneous projections as was witnessed at the Mars Hill discursive (Acts 17) by the Apostle Paul: engagement over dismissal. Ironically, Christianity may be in the process of being rescued from the Enlightenments reducible trap of irrelevance by an unlikely ally: postmoderns retreat into the haze of premodern tribal vagaries. When matters of faith and communal impact are considered as non-equals, Christianities ability to liberate mankind from the negative impact of hubris inclusionary confinement is severely restricted. Demonstrations of this magnanimous purveyance are seen in the purview of politics that showcase this reality. The objective contrast of societies based on Christian principles versus other religious extrapolations bears out the superiority of Christianities impact on the anthropological concerns of societal advancement.
Abuses have occurred within the governments that espouse Judeo-Christian principles as foundational considerations, no doubt. However, the ability to self-correct is the capitalist systems bane, as they are forced to cede to the will of the very market that empowers them. Economic matters force corrective action to be enacted for profits sake, all the while the advancing of human rights and freedoms ringing principles come into the equation as secondary considerations. The ironic potentialities cannot be denied as the direct result of these forces of finances creates opportunities for the easement of exploitative practices. The ability to promote justice, equity and the promotion of human dignity thrive in systems of jurisprudence that embrace the doctrine of redemption and deny enslavements abhorrent behavior the right to exist copiously couples well with governments that value the individual and the corporate necessities of equality in matters of finance.
The metanarrative of Christianity affectively influencing society positively is a profound argument for the viability of adherence to Christ along sociological configurations. Adaptation and an attitude of general practitioners over specialists in evangelism is a primary concern of precedence for the church. Connections are achievable through meaningful expressions of lifestyle coupled to the irreducible qualities of truth expressed through living, sentient beings.
