Funny story from Sunday night. Maybe ironic would be a better description. Getting to it, the youth and Mikal Klumpp and Cody Phillips and I carved pumpkins this past Sunday evening. While we trying our artistic skills on the innocent gourds, one of Waco's finest rolled in. Evidently, someone has abandoned an old car on the lot across Homan Ave. from the church. This is the lot that the church owns. The officer came by to tell us about this having been alerted to it by neighbors that face the lot on 19th St. These neighbors wanted the City to tow the car as it interfered with their parking; the twist being that they wanted a car towed from a church lot so they could continue to park on said church lot.
In a very tenuous segway (think irony), I had a conversation with a Truett student last week. It wasn't a Calvarian Truett student but one that was still church shopping and sought me out. She wanted to talk about post-modernism. Post-modernism is a loose school of thought that rejects all claims of propositional truth. There are only perspectives and assertions, nothing foundational that has universal appeal. Jean Francois Lyotard's work in 1979, The Postmodern Condition, is the corpus for this.
There is an inherent contradiction to postmodern thought: the only truth is that there is no truth. That in itself is a truth. This is a foundation for something built upon an absence of foundations.
Whatever the current thought trend swirling around our culture matters little to the Church. I actually think the Church does better when it is not the dominant culture. The Church survives when it is taken as a given; the Church thrives when it is the minority facing an opposing culture. If it's the postmodern culture, let's have at it.
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