God in the box

During our senior capstone philosophy class (for some reason labeled the philosophy of being a world changer. . . so we now just call it senior capstone class) we started discussing what propositional truths we would keep in the church. As Post-modernity starts to knock down one after the other. One person said that God is at the top holding onto the church and as we knock down these truths from the bottom (Jenga style if you will) then God still holds it.

Although I agree to an extent, God is obviously holding the church from the top and we don’t have to have everything put together down here, I still think that there is at least one truth we have to hold to, and I’d like to grab a few on the way.

Do we really think that if we deny the resurrection of Christ as a truth that has to be held to keep the church going that we could still just plug away. No I don’t think we have to understand the trinity or really comprehend Christ’s complete duality, but if there is no duality if we just make Christ some “mystery which we don’t understand” I truly believe this undermines Biblical Christianity.

We love new fads and anything that makes us look new and smart, and I’m afraid that we have already started to cling to this new “post-modern” thing. We chastise others for being so wedded to modernity and turn around and do the same thing. The Church obviously needs to change and flow to stay relevant to its culture, but how far are we willing to do this? And at what cost? What are we willing to sacrifice to post modernity, to make us relevant, and why can’t we learn from the mistakes of the past?