POMO RANT
There's been a bit of "discussion" on Next-Wave. Josh Dulaney, a 29-year-old pastor says that the pomo king isn't wearing any clothes (That was last month). Iggie Krug retorts that it's a prophetic movement (That is this month).

I say that whole rant is deja vu of what I was hearing from the emerging generations of the 60's, the 70's, and the 80's. "Everything has totally changed. It's a new world out there [translate "new paradigm"]. So everything has to be reinvented for us!"

I'm not denying that there is a lot of change going on. I like change. I find it challenging. I'm not saying that we don't need to make some major adjustments. It's just that in western culture, since WWII, each "emerging generation" of young adults seems totally enamored with themselves and their place in the world -- to the point of thinking that there is no or little continuity with the past. But the fact is, regardless of which generation is emerging, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

My point -- let's spend less time TALKING about how different we are from each other and just get on with being who we are -- the church. If we are different, it is different from the rest of the world. Everyone else seems to find their identity in their little niches. But in Christ we are not Gentiles or Jews, male or female, skaters or preppies, management or labor, slaves or free, pomos or boomers... We're something else -- totally different -- "in Christ" -- the third way.