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Mark Sayers
UNDERSTANDING OUR TIMESLIVING AS MISSIONARIES
MISSIONARY SUCCESSWHERE ARE WE DOING WELL?
ASPIRATIONALS
NON EURO MIGRANTS
CRISIS OF MEANING
RETURNERS
MISSIONARY FAILUREEVERYWHERE ELSE
MISSIONARY MYTHSCHURCH SHAPESAVED BY COOLBECOME LESS………GO OUT
HappyWorld
THE HAPPY EGG
My Story
Happyworld = Friends > Family > Fun
SUPERFLAT
SUPERFLAT CULTURE1) DISENCHANTED 2) POST-COVENANTAL3) ME-ISM
SUPERFLAT CULTURE1) DISENCHANTED 2) POST-COVENANTAL3) ME-ISM
A DISENCHANTED WORLD
A PAGAN WORLD
“If you go back…in human history, you come to archaic societies in which the whole set of distinctions we make between the religious, political, economic, social, etc aspects of our society ceases to make sense. In these earlier societies, religion was “everywhere”, was interwoven with everything else, and in no sense constituted a separate “sphere” of its own.”
A Secular Age. Charles Taylor
CHRISTENDOM’S COSMOS
REFORMATION
NATURAL SCIENCE
“The problem is…the separation of God from nature, a split that began in the late medieval and early modern period. This resulted in the (perceived) separation of God from everyday life that is so characteristic of contemporary secular societies. The main carrier of this has been modern natural science. Science came to understand nature as a mechanical system that operated more or less independently from God. God was thus gradually (over centuries) removed from the cosmos.”
The Sacred Cosmos. Terence L. Nichols
TRUIMPH OF REASON
COMMODIFICATION OF EVERYTHING
MORALLY INSIGNIFICANTUNIVERSE
WHAT EXISENTIAL CRISIS?
SUPERFLAT 2 -DISTRACTION AND IDLE CHATTER
DISTRACTION& IDLECHATTER
SUBSTITUTIONARYTRANCENDENCE
“All Sins are attempts to fill voids.”Simone Weil
SUBSTITUTIONARYTRANCENDENCE
Consumerism, Sex, Travel, Sport, Home Improvement, Exercise, Food, Technology, The Environment, Education, Romantic Love, Experience, Music, Movies.
NO MARKETPLACE
SUPERFLAT CULTURE1) DISENCHANTED 2) POST-COVENANTAL3) ME-ISM
POST-BELIEF? Or…?
POST-COVENANTAL
TRADITIONAL STRUCTURE
META
COMMUNAL
INDIVIDUAL
STATE, NATION, EMPIRE
GUILD, CHURCH, VILLAGE, TRIBE, TRADE, LODGE, FAMILY, MARRIAGE, CLAN, CLUB, ASSOCIATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARKET, VOLUNTEERS, UNIONS, FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
TRADITIONAL STRUCTURE
META
COMMUNAL
INDIVIDUAL
STATE, NATION, EMPIRE
GUILD, CHURCH, VILLAGE, TRIBE, TRADE, LODGE, FAMILY, MARRIAGE, CLAN, CLUB, ASSOCIATION, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARKET, VOLUNTEERS, UNIONS, FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
COVENANTAL
CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURE
META
COMMUNAL/COVENANTAL
INDIVIDUAL
STATE, NATION, CORPORATION, MASS MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY/INTERNET, UNIVERSITY, CITY.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, FREEDOM,CHOICE, PERSONAL HAPPINESS
SOLIDITY LIQUIDITY
ATOMISATION
SUPERFLAT CULTURE1) DISENCHANTED 2) POST-COVENANTAL3) ME-ISM
ME-ISM
QUANTAM CHANGE 1962-1970
RADICAL INDIVIDUALISM
FREEDOM MYTH
CHRISTIANITY’S PATHETIC COUSIN
ME-ISM (Moral Therapeutic Deism)
IMPLICIT & PARASITIC
HINDU ISLAM CHRISTIAN JEWISH
ME-ISM
DEFACTO FAITH
ME-ISM
1) Purpose of life is personal happiness
(Moral Therapeutic Deism)
2) God is a cosmic butler3) Morality is not hurting others4) Everyone gets to heaven bar Hitler5) Feelings are paramount
WHAT IS HOT
WHAT IS NOT1) Discipline2) Sin & broader consequence 3) Submission of self4) Interventionist God
WHAT DOES MISSION LOOK
LIKE?
In a dis-Enchanted Culture?
In a post-Covenantal Culture?
For a church infected by Me-Ism?