Welcome to the "Sunday at 7" blog! This is the meeting ground for the Sunday evening Home Group at the Adirondack Community Church in Lake Placid, NY.
Hopefully people who regularly attend the Home Group have received the Abridged Millennium Matrix - coming by way of snail mail. We will be sending it along to our "diaspora" participants as well! We will be talkiing about "The Matrix" on Sunday evening., February 15. This blog gives us the opportunity to begin the dialogue together - and to continue the dialogue after Sunday evenings are over. You can post your comments, add to the conversation.
In his book The Millennium Matrix, Rex Miller writes:
The Church is not losing ground. On the contrary, we're simply awakening to our true condition.
Some things to ponder:
Looking forward to reading your thoughts and engaging in the conversation!
In his book The Millennium Matrix, Rex Miller writes:
The Church is not losing ground. On the contrary, we're simply awakening to our true condition.
Some things to ponder:
- What condition are we (the Adirondack Community Church) in? (...with a nod to Kenny Rogers!) Can you point to specific aspects of our ministry that cause you to characterize our "condition" as you do?
- What do you think about this concept, part of the Matrix that Miller shares - that community connections used to be maintained by tradition; then, by creeds; then by issues and interests; and now, connections are maintained by questions.
Looking forward to reading your thoughts and engaging in the conversation!
I am glad that you mentioned the 'Matrix' by snail mail... Imagine my confussion when I opened the envelope sans reading my emails... There is a lot to be said about how we biew the generations around our own. Having been raised by 'The Silent Generation' parents, I'm a 'Generation Jones' married to a 'Generation X', and having two daughters that are 'Generation Y'... I look forward to this next discussion! Jim C
ReplyDeleteIn response to Jim - one of the challenges we face has to do with the potential difference between a generational expression and an entirely new paradigm. What my generation did in the 60s did not alter the paradigm of our parents. In fact, many say that "boomers" intensified the very institutions and traditions they rebelled against. Is Post Modernism a generational backlash, or a whole new way of thinking about and experiencing the world?
ReplyDeleteA thought...if faith is pragmatic in today's paradigm, what are faith's pragmatic consequences?
ReplyDeleteAnother one. Are the Gospels "recontextualized" or rewritten into language that makes the written word more comprehensible to us?
ReplyDeleteResponding to Stephen - When I think of "pragmatism", I think of something that has a kind of elemental practicality to it. I wonder if people aren't looking for very specific ways in which "faith" makes any difference in their lives. So, for the "Convergent" context, creeds (doctrines?) just don't matter any more! I think they are saying: "Show me what difference any of this makes in my life."
ReplyDeleteOne more thought regarding last evening's (Sunday) home group conversation. In my study of Mark's gospel I read in the parable of the sower that people were "hearing" the word. Notice - only 75% success rate! We who are not limited by the oral tradition have more means at hand to share the word (though our success rate doesn't seem to be significantly better!). But also, recall Paul's words in Romans 10:14 - "How can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?"
ReplyDeleteThe Biblical context was "go and tell". Today we can "go and show", "go and act it out", "go and record it", "go and blog it", etc. The "it" hasn't changed; but the way we go certainly has expanded.