- Paperback: 140 pages
- Publisher: Word Music (U.K.) (18 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842271652
- ISBN-13: 978-1842271650
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,051,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gerard Kelly, personal email to author
Good design, varied content - a genuine response to a deep problem that hardly anyone else has even identified.
Stanley Davies, Global Connections
This is an exceedingly valuable book and should be compulsory reading for all mission executives and personnel staff.
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This review is from: Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation: World Mission by Postmodern Generation (Paperback)
World mission is changing. Arguably the most profound for change for mission from the Western nations, is the impact of postmodern culture, and the new generations who have grown up with it. What impact will this culture have on the future of mission?Rather than write about Generation X (the age group that grew up in the eighties and nineties and who have been heavily influenced by postmodern values), this book is written by leaders of that generation themselves – men and women with a heart for mission, for taking the gospel of Christ to all the earth, but whose approaches and understandings may differ somewhat from those who have gone before. The book is the result of a meeting in 2001 on Lindisfarne of many young mission leaders from around the world. The aim of this ‘Holy Island Roundtable’ was to explore what mission might look like in the coming decades, and how to respond to this creatively and positively. At one level, this book is a plea for understanding and communication. That room has been left for an afterward by Bill Taylor of the WEA Commission on Mission – an older leader with many year’s mission experience – is a good sign that this is not a book written out of a sense of confrontation or hurt, but rather out of a desire to reach out across the generations. It is also an attempt to find out what God is saying to the church and mission agencies in these times. One of the challenges is to recognise how much of what we think of as the gospel is actually culture, and to separate that out from the core of Biblical Christianity. At the same time, what is readily dismissed in postmodern culture is not always unbiblical or against God. All culture is fallen, but God can redeem any culture. Each culture reflects something of God that can only be ignited by the Word and the Spirit being brought to bear. This no more or less true for postmodern culture than it is for the culture that preceded it. With this in mind, the book also looks at the strengths and weaknesses that Generation X brings to world mission. If you are a mission leader of an older generation that finds young people frustrating, hard to work with or just plain incomprehensible most of time, this book may give you a fresh insight. If you are part of ‘Generation X’, it will help you reflect on where you are coming from and be a bit more willing to work with those who have gone before in a more constructive, and open hearted manner. I count myself as part of ‘Generation X’, and like me, you may not agree with all the authors say, but you will recognise aspects of yourself here. If we wish to see mission go on into the twenty-first century with new blood and fresh vision, books like this cannot but help us start to work out ways of working that will ensure we are being faithful to God and relevant to the culture from which many of our missionaries are being drawn. How that affects how we remain relevant to the cultures to which we are outreaching in Christ’s name is another subject.
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Gen X Comes of Age in Missions,
By C. G. Adams "C. Geoffrey Adams, Ph.D." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation: World Mission by Postmodern Generation (Paperback)
If you are familiar with discussions about the characteristics of the so-called Generation X, you will not be surprised at many of the attitudes and characteristics in this interesting little book. What is different is the specific application of the Gen X mindset to missions. Richard Tiplady is not the author but the editor of this book, although he does write the introduction and one of the chapters.
The book is the product of a gathering of 17 Xers on Holy Island in 2001 with the purpose of discussing God's mission and their generation. Every member of the group (six western nations are represented) is in some way passionately involved in global missions. For balance and aged insight, leading missiologist Bill Taylor and his wife Yvonne were invited as "chaperones" -- GREAT choice! One of the refreshing/maddening characteristics of Xers (depending on if you are on the receiving end or not) is their brutal honesty. That is a highlight of the contributions of each participant. This is not a "how to" book, nor is it an "in-your-face" condemnation of all that is wrong with the previous generation. It is a well-written, reflective and thought-provoking discussion designed to surface the right issues and questions so as to effectively pass the baton of missions from one generation to the next. Career missionaries and mission executives will benefit the most from this work. Though I would not recommend the book to the average layman, anyone with a good level of experience and knowledge of world missions might be interested in reading this collection of perspectives. Whether or not one agrees with all the opinions expressed, the world is changing rapidly and the generation gap in the Western world is clearly an issue that must be addressed. It would be interesting to see how an Asian, African and Latin American of the same age group would address the issues considered in this book.
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Understanding Post Modernity,
By Byron Harrison "bj~" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation: World Mission by Postmodern Generation (Paperback)
This is an excellent resource for anyone wanting or needing to better understand post modernity - even those who consider themselves postmodern. Although it directly deals with post modern culture as it relates to mission, it will be useful to any context where those from Modernity and Postmodernity come together. As a Postmodern myself, it helped me tremendously to understand many of the clashes I have had with my modernist colleagues. It is an edited volume so there are many contributing authors and it closes with a chapter from a Boomer who sees both the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernity.
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