This Cultural Moment MOC

What does post-Christian culture in the West mean for Christians and churches? What does post-Christianity believe? Where are we headed? How do we faithfully follow Jesus in this cultural moment?

The cultural myth

• Radical individualism is the modus operandi in post-Christianity
  • Post-Christianity corrodes institutions
• Post-Christianity offers a kind of alternative, liberal form of Christianity
  • Post-Christianity fails to satisfy
  • Idol stories are counterfeit gospels that can’t fulfil

The calling of the church

• The decline of nominal Christian belief provides an opportunity
• In a culture of radical individualism, the church is called to go deep
• Missions needs to engage post-Christian culture differently
• The Gospel is subversive fulfilment of idol stories
• Each culture and person has unique obstacles to encountering Jesus
• How to engage with any cultural text

Books

Read

• Plugged In – Connecting Your Faith with Everything You Watch, Read, and Play
• Disappearing Church – From Cultural Relevance to Gospel Resilience
• How (Not) to Be Secular – Reading Charles Taylor
• Discipling Nations – Miller, Darrow L. (2018)

To read

• Reappearing Church – The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture
• ‘For Their Rock Is Not As Our Rock’ – An evangelical theology of religions