APOLARITY

Something sucky I just found out – Relevant does not have its current articles available for online reading. Anyway, there’s an awesome article in the current issue about questions – the value of mystery and the joy that can be found in not knowing all the answers.

Which leads the author, Dan Haseltine (of Jars of Clay) to bring up Napoleon Dynamite. The thing about this wonderful film is that it really doesn’t have a plot. It is a movie “almost entirely void of story.” One of the things that is giving this movie such popularity and such a cult following is exactly that: this postmodern generation has shrugged the need for a beginning, middle, and end. “The story is not necessary, and in many ways is burdensome and old-fashioned.”

So the question becomes, “How do we share the gospel with people who no longer care about story?” It means a complete redefinition of the way we think of evangelism, doesn’t it? It may have more to do with impressions, ideas, and experiences than “testimonies,” gospel presentations, and the like.

Any ideas of how to begin to enact cultural change?

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