THE PROBLEM WITH POSTMODERNISM
AS A MINISTRY FOUNDATION
In a nutshell, postmodernism is the ultimate expression of individualism -- design your own story, your own random system, your own approach to life. This is antithetical to following Jesus -- buy into my story/kingdom, do things my way, approach life from my heavenly perspective (to paraphrase Jesus).

Of course, this doesn't mean that there are no points of contact between postmodern thinking and Christianity.

People steeped in postmodernism long for community (although they never achieve it because true community involves giving up doing your own thing -- taking the individual out of the driver's seat). And Jesus called his followers to band together.

Postmodernism lives with ambiguity and mystery. Indeed, Jesus was always creating ambiguity -- deconstructing the social and religious values and institutions of his time. But he did so in order to replace them with his own radical yet very defined approach to connecting with God.

Yes, there is room for ministries with those operating from a postmodern perspective. But postmodernism, like modernism before it, makes for a very shaky ministry foundation. Why replace one faulty approach with another?