It began with the Renaissance and the Age of Reason. It was characterized by the rise of the nation-state, the dominance of European and American culture, the valuing of the individual, the scientific pursuit of the orderliness of the universe. There was a great revolution in communication caused by the printing press. The printing press will be greatly overshadowed by the computer and the digital revolution. Globalization and diversity will be the standard operating procedure.
Science finds more support for chaos theory than orderly laws.
The only thing we can be sure of is that tomorrow will be very different from today. Certainly, the Church will be challenged to go where it has never gone before. The Church of the future will have to reconstruct itself to do ministry in the third millennium. On the other hand, while the Church of Jesus Christ has been reconstructed a multitude of times over the centuries, the work of the Church remains fundamentally unchanged. The Church has always been in the business of trying to connect people with God's love in Jesus Christ.