Standing here before you today I must confess, is not too dissimilar from the time I stood here some 32 years ago. Today there are new terms to describe different generational thinking. We are living in a period given the name 'post-modernism'. Perhaps that's a familiar term to you. It's relatively new to me, though after a recent concentrated focus on it, it seems to turn up in all my reading material.
Postmodernism is a reaction to modernism.
The term 'postmodern' is characterized by no objective truth that can be proven through reason. We can only know truth subjectively. Therefore options and choices govern life, not truth. This is a striking difference. The church is asking itself how this generation lost 'the truth', lost 'the story', if you will.