The African Church in the Third Millennium

Posted by J.R. Miller on Nov 9, 2011 in Blog, Educational, Speaking, Training

Shame is the immune system of the soul. — J.R. Miller

As I prepare to speak at the upcoming conference in Nigeria, I wanted to share some updates on the event itself.

Flyers

WATS Event Flyer

WATS Speaker Lineup

Keynote Address

Below is the abstract of the paper and talk I will be presenting.

 PRACTICING MISSIONAL IN THE FACE OF POST-MODERNITY:
HOW TO HIT THE TARGET WHEN THE TARGET DOES NOT EXIST

Living out the mission of the Gospel in a Post-Modern culture creates a unique set of challenges for the church. It is important to appropriately reach out to the culture in which we live, but it is an obscenity to God when we compromise His Kingdom culture to do it. (2 Thes. 2:15, Col. 2:8, Gal. 1:13-24). In an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about practicing missional and the face of post-modernity, this paper begins with a survey of the philosophical roots of post-modernity as it developed in the Unites States with a focus on how these philosophies shaped the theology and praxis of the church. Second, with a special focus in the writings of Francis Schaeffer, the paper explores the result of post-modernity in Man’s ability to discern his existence and the search for a unified truth. Third, the paper provides a rubric through which the reader can analyze the Modern, Post-modern and Kingdom worldviews on the topics of Truth, Reason, Meaning, The Human Condition and Faith. Finally, the paper will close by offering practical considerations for how the church can be faithful to our Divine calling, live a missional existence, and reach the post-modern world with the message of Jesus Christ.