Changing Culture of the Church

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We live in a society today that is vastly different to the one the previous generation grew up in; priorities have changed with people finding completely new ways to spend their time, people have an barrage of options presented to them with every decision and everyone seems to find someone else to blame for the current situation. 50 years ago this country was experiencing a cultural way of thinking known as modernity, this was described very well by Anthony Giddens here; “Modernity is a shorthand term for modern society, or industrial civilisation, it is associated with a certain set of attitudes towards the world, the idea of the world as open to transformation, by human intervention”1 A great example of this occurred in 1969 with America putting the first astronaut on the moon, this was a time when barriers were broken down and it was shown that we really could achieve anything if we set our minds to it. Church wise this was a difficult time with religion being deemed as irrelevant, with the new found freedom of choice people didn’t see why they should tie themselves down to traditional doctrine and instead take charge of their own destiny. This was shown in the free love movement of the 60s with people spurning traditional ideas of sexuality and family life and instead choosing to live in the hear and now with what felt good at the time being the most important thing. Although not in the same time period, a great biblical example of this is shown in Genesis 11 with the story of the Tower of Babel, this shows the people of that time deciding that they dont need a God in the traditional sense and will instead build a tower to the heavens so that they may instead make a name for themselves and worship the glory of man. As... ... middle of paper ... ...eek among others. They usually relate to a network of people rather that the traditional denominational approach, they can also often be encouraged and resourced from outside of the immediate location. Works Cited 1 Giddens, Anthony. 1990 The Consequences of Modernity 2 Tomlinson, D 1995 The Post Evangelical Haralambos M and Holborn M 1990 Sociology Themes and Perspectives4 National Statistics ‘Dependent Children’ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1163 1/3/20105 http://www.kibbutz.org.il/eng/081101_kibbutz-eng.htm 1/3/20106 Talcott Parsons and Robert F. Bales 1998 Family Socialization and Interaction Process7 National Statistics ‘Divorce’ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=170 1/3/2010 8 Cray G, 1998 Postmodern Culture and Youth Discipleship9 National Statistics ‘Transport’ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1366 1/3/2010

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