By Ron Martoia
Writer Ron Martoia is one in all latest keenest Christian observers and thinkers. And in his newest publication he explains why evangelism is more challenging now than ever earlier than: postmodern society has misplaced its overarching tales. buyers are disappointed, disenfranchised, and no more open to the largest 'story' of all: the message of God's redeeming grace.
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If we simply propositionalize the message of the Bible, we violate the main contribution it can make in providing a cohesive narrative story line that sets Christianity apart from other world religions. Most religions think we should help others, love our neighbors, be self-controlled, and kind — and so does Christianity. But this isn’t the unique contribution to the conversation. indd 61 8/13/08 2:09:54 PM 62 The Three Texts to-dos is problematic for another, even more substantial reason. While the church is quick to say we are all about grace, when I listen to preaching and Bible studies, I am not so convinced that we really practice what we preach.
While her reactions at times were spirited, she so badly wanted to enter spiritual conversations with friends and family members — and even her real estate clients — that she simply couldn’t help keeping her ears open. The Gospel According to Jesus Here is the rub: Did Jesus go around offering the propositional distillation we just noted? Was this what constituted following him? Jesus, it seems, had a fundamentally different understanding of his mission. He wanted to broker shalom. indd 53 8/14/08 4:21:39 PM 54 The Three Texts with him is in fact a part of that wholeness, it wasn’t a primary part of the conversation he had with people.
In this new M3 world, the interconnection of all things, the deeply relational web, is primary. The world is alive; it is not a machine. Everything in the world is connected to everything else in the world. This is the finding of quantum mechanics, which along with other discoveries is turning our understanding of the world upside down or, maybe more aptly, inside out. ”5 Essentially Bell’s theorem and experiments in nonlocal causality demonstrated that paired electrons that are split apart and separated by thousands of miles are totally connected in some invisible way.