Urbanity - Home is but one of the places where family members get nurture, support, and recognition. It's true that the church can't live in the past, ministering to a kind of family that's now virtually nonexistent. While it's critical to challenge parents to work hard at making their marriages succeed and to provide their children with standards and values, there's a more fundamental challenge before us. We need to have an adequate basis for truth. When we speak of a postmodern world, we're not referring merely to the next social development in America after modernism.
Modernism believes in objective, absolute, and knowable truth.
Postmodernism at its extreme explicitly rejects this notion. Therefore, before the church can help families living in a postmodern society, it must take a clear position about truth. The church has historically claimed just such a source of timeless truth in the Bible. Since the Bible is God's Word that transcends culture, it's fully adequate to teach us how to know God and how to live in the world he made. The church that makes biblical instruction and application its first priority is best suited to help people in our postmodern society.