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Preaching Holiness in a Post-modern Culture. MODERNISM. What’s The Difference?. POSTMODERNISM. HOLINESS MESSAGE. HOLINESS MESSAGE.
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MODERNISM What’s The Difference? POSTMODERNISM
HOLINESS MESSAGE • The holiness message can be perceived by many post-moderns as arrogant and judgmental. 2 Corinthians 6:17 (NIV) "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."
HOLINESS MESSAGE • Effectively communicating the holiness message today will require a dual emphasis on the internal work of God (cleansing, “come out”) and the external societal transforming (empowering “go to”) power of God..James 1:27 (NIV) Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
HOLINESS METHODS • The Way We’ve Done It: • Bible – Exegete – Illustrate – Apply • Due to cultural shifts, the Bible is no longer accepted as the ultimate authority to a post-modern or a post-Christian culture. • New Paradigm: • Life – Exegete Life – Bible – Apply & Illustrate Start with Human Condition or Need Exegete Human Condition or Need EXAMPLE: Jesus and the Woman at the Well in John 4 Mark Beeson: “Jesus taught this way and only taught the other way once, in Luke 4:14 f.f.”