Everyone is entitled to his or her point of view, because for the perspectivilist, what you see depends on where you stand. The world of postmodernists is a world of image rather than substance. They are concerned with the immediate rather than the long term because history is meaningless and the future is too scary and unpredictable to contemplate. Meanwhile the present is lived out as a tumble and tangle of fleeting experiences. In contrast, the gospel is not a product to be marketed but a life-long relationship to be established and developed.
People are likely to continue on the basis on which they first came.
The answers to pastoral effectiveness depend not on one's ability to develop the charisma, communication skills and management acumen of pastors leading superchurches but on one's authenticity as a follower of Christ. Most of us do not have an extraordinary combination of gifts and are not in locations where we can expand our facilities to attract large crowds. Yet we can still play a significant role as part of a network of Christian communities, developing reproducible units that will facilitate the church's continuing expansion. The diversity represented by Generation X and even more by the next generation, who are variously called the 'Mosaics' and the 'Millennials,' means that no single approach is going to be appropriate for all. Worship takes place in a sanctuary, not in an auditorium or a lecture hall.