To be a christian in a postmodern world

Gosto tanto disto:

«How are you to adress this world with the gospel of Jesus? You cannot just hurl true doctrine at it. You will either crush people or drive them away. That is actually not a bad thing, because mission and evangelism were never actually meant to be a matter of throwing doctrine at people's heads. They work in a far more holistic way: by praxis, symbol and story as well as what we think of, in a somewhat modernist way, as "straightforward" exposition of "truth". I am reminded, too, of the power of symbolic praxis to go beyond words when I think of one of the greatest ballerinas of all time. After one of her great performances somebody had the temerity to ask her what the dance meant. Her reply was simple and speaks volumes to us as we consider mission in the postmodern world. "If I could have said it," she said, "I wouldn't have needed to dance it."

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We must therefore get used to a mission that includes living the true Christian praxis. Christian praxis consists in the love of God in Christ being poured out in us and through us. If this is truly happening, it is not damaged by the postmodern critique, the hermeneutic of suspicion. »

by N.T.Wright in The Challenge of Jesus