God does not use faith to create truth; He uses truth through the Holy Spirit to create faith.
-- Josh McDowell quoted on Fighting for the Faith (6/7/10)
Wow!
That right there is the heart of the difference between modern and post-modern. It is the heart of the difference between contemporary worship, driven as it is by the response it seeks in the heart of the believer; and traditional worship, driven by the objective truth it is intended to convey through word and sacrament. As we seek ways to communicate timeless truth in post-modern categories, we inevitably find ourselves accommodating a way of thinking that is fundamentally at war with the very notion that truth exists. We must communicate with our post-modern culture, to some degree, by standing apart from it -- not in an arrogant or snobbish fashion, but in an uncompromising commitment to the notion that truth is objective -- truth is outside of us.
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We must communicate with our post-modern culture, to some degree, by standing apart from it -- not in an arrogant or snobbish fashion, but in an uncompromising commitment to the notion that truth is objective -- truth is outside of us.
Hi, just wandering around and saw this, thought I'd ask a question if that's okay...
I don't know that I disagree with this idea, but I do have a question about it: If truth is both objective and outside of us (and I think it is), AND if we are a flawed and imperfect humanity lacking the ability to perfectly understand truth at every turn (and I think that is an apt description), then how do we know truth when we see it/hear it?
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