Each person constructs an individual reality and something must be experienced for it to be true and real. The human race could create a better world through exploration, discovery, colonialism, communions, capitalism, Nazism, social democracy, medical advances. Science was a savior. Postmodernism woke up in a fog of a pessimistic nightmare of human misery where suffering and death, rather than progress, are considered inevitable. The world is seen as getting worse, not better.
Postmodernism is no better or worse than modernism just different.
But this shift has tremendous implications for all of life how we do church and Christian education, how we transmit faith and morality. I will summarize three implications for youth ministry in this new era. This kind of evangelism will not cut it in the 21st century. The Bible is a book of stories. The whole collection tells the over-arching story of God's interaction with people from creation to fall, to struggle, to wandering, to despair, to returning, to prosperity, to exile, to redemption, to gathering, to scattering, to victory.