Postmodern
Good News Flash: A Postmodern pastor was hit by a bus at the corner of Absolut & Reality Lane. According to his testimony, when he “saw a light from Heaven,” Rev. Derrick Dunkoff had an epiphany. He now believes in buses. And in objective truth.
Dunkoff started out trying to reach unsaved people with the good news of Jesus Christ but, desperate to find a formula that worked in reaching the lost, fell in the with Emergent Church crowd. While their pragmatic, whatever works mentality was attractive he began to have doubts about God.
Postmodernism is not so much a belief system as it is an attitude of willful disdain of Truth. Instead of declaring the absolute truth of the Bible, he began to have doubts. His nagging doubts were fed by a steady erosion of belief in absolute truth in favor of subjectivity.
Said Dunkoff, “I came to question the notion of absolutes and decided to throw out Objective Truth as my standard in favor of questioning and doubting my assumptions. I felt that there were absolutely no absolutes. Everything became subjective. Somewhere along the way I gave up on the person of God. I thought that Absolute Truth was an illusion and therefore one interpretation of the cosmos was as good as any other, right?”
Dunkoff, in the name of being relevant, got so utterly lost in his swirling sea of subjectivity and doubt that he finally began to question the existence of the universe and naturally quit believing in the mundane material world such as stop lights, water fountains, and buses.
Said Dunkoff, “I was a ship without anchor drifting any way the wind would blow. So convinced of my new revelation, I challenged the very reality of a bus I saw careening towards me. I rejected belief in the objective nature of the bus. I mean, we define reality, right? So I challenged the red light in front of me, too. I mean, authority is overrated, right? No one can tell me what to do. I was out to deconstruct the universe and make it over in my image.”
The only thing he deconstructed was his left arm. When the bus hit him, he was sent sprawling into a nearby water fountain. While baptism doesn’t save, a good cold slap in the face certainly helped him regain his objectivity and respect for Truth.
Said a smiling Dunkoff, “I had a revelation: Buses exist. Red lights are real. And Truth is absolute and independent of my opinion about it. It simply is. Whoa. Who knew?”
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 1 Corinthians 1:27
Bryan Hupperts © 2009
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