Preaching to a Postmodern World A Guide to Reaching Twenty-First Century Listeners

Name: Preaching to a Postmodern World A Guide to Reaching Twenty-First Century Listeners
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ISBN: 9780801063671

ISBN-10: 0801063671

ISBN-13: 9780801063671

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Graham Johnston, Haddon W. Robinson

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While growing churches dot our urban centers and country landscapes, church-goers and students today are actually less likely to maintain a Christian worldview than in the past. In fact, the majority of society does not even believe in objective truth. A minister out of touch with this culture is like an uninformed missionary trying to teach in a foreign country. To communicate God's Word effectively in the twenty-first century, teachers need to know how to connect with and confront an audience of postmodern listeners.In Preaching to a Postmodern World, Johnston shows pastors, seminary students, professors, lay teachers, and church leaders can reach the present age without selling out to…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Baker Books
Publication date: 7/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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Foreword



Introduction


Risk Your Life


Think like a Missionary


Weigh Style, Skill, and Spirit



"Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore"


Expect Differing Worldviews from the Pew


See the Opportunities and the Unprecedented


What Worked Then May Not Now


Practicing the Principles: Two Burdens



Postmodernity: Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?


What's Modern versus Postmodern?


Reacting to Modernity


Rejecting Objective Truth


Skeptics Suspecting Authority


Living in the Missing Persons Era


Managing the Blur of Morality


Postmodernity and the Search for the Transcendent


It's a Media-Mad World


Facing the Knowing Smirk


Questing for Community


Living in the Material World



Rules for Engagement


Don't Engage at the Expense of the Message


Communication Takes Two--and Time


Risk Involvement


Address Where You Live



Challenging Listeners


Become More Relational


Tune in to the Secular


Be More Apologetic


Encourage Accountability



Obstacles


Preaching to the Biblically Clueless


Deal with the Exclusive Uniqueness of Christ


The "Whatever" Age


Handling Resistance to the Master Plan


The Ultimate Hot Potato



Inroads


Spirituality Is Hot, Religion Is Not


You Want to Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name


Creation and Connectedness to the World


Sense over Sensibility



Practices for Engagement


Take a Dialogical Approach


Use Inductive Preaching


Use Storytelling


Use Audiovisuals, Drama, and Art


Use Humor


Become a Good Listener


Make Your Delivery Crisp and Clear


Conclusion: No Other Place I'd Rather Be


Notes


Bibliography