smells like teen spirit

introduction:being postmodern

(for Churches that aren’t)

but you noticed...

...thank you

Church attendance

source: mission-shaped churchCray et al

demographics

demographicslocal population (%)

demographicslocal population (%) a Church (%)

what we used to be told

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so please promise to forget...

“don’t worry,they’ll come back”

the sociological climate

how is itfor you?

“Modern” world-view • where are we?

• who are we?

• what’s wrong?

• what’s the remedy?

• objective world

• homo autonomous

• lack of knowledge

• education

post-Modern world-view • objective world

• homo autonomous

• lack of knowledge

• education

pluralistic world

“we are Legion”

other people’s power

listen to the stories of others

World War generation

• born 1901 to 1924

• confident in science

• conformist

• ideologies ‘modernism, Marxism, capitalism’ etc

builder generation

• born 1925 to 1945

• tend to be conservative

• first to have ‘teen age’

• similar ideologies to parents

boomer generation

• born 1946 to 1963

• grew up in the ‘60s

• immediacy of experience

• education & the pill

• secularism, DIY spirituality

generation X

• born 1964 to 1981

• latchkey kids of divorced parents

• influenced by pop music and TV

• at ease with IT, pluralism and New Age

generation Y

• born 1982 onwards

• now mid-teens to mid-twenties

• grown up with MTV

• addicted to texting and IM

demographicslocal population (%) a Church (%)

demographicslocal population (%) a Church (%)

gen. Yest. 10%

gen. Xest. 18%

...and in 10 years time?local population (%) a Church (%)

gen. Y gen. X

our story

Monkton Farleigh, South Wraxall and Winsley

over to you

(there’s no such thing as a stupid question)