Today I share some random thoughts concerning the challenges of our contemporary world. How should the church live out the faith of Jesus in the present world?
We live in a religiously divided world; we live in a non-Christian world, we live in a post-modern world.
Some days it seems that everything that was nailed down is coming loose.
That we can be objective is a great myth.
The new paradigm is lack of predictability. With the development of quantum physics, we discovered a world that does not behave the way Newton said it should. It is impossible to pin down, with waves turning into particles and particles into waves. What has mass one moment is pure energy the next, and none of it is predictable. The very act of observing a particle changes its behavior, which destroys the concept of scientific objectivity. A scientist cannot stand outside the world to observe it. The same particles that are busy responding to each other respond to the observer as well, revealing a world that is not made up of manageable things but of constantly changing relationships. It is no longer possible to think of the world as a machine.
The great challenge before humanity is the quest for community. The great challenge before the church is the quest for community. The church that exists in genuine community will touch the world.