Postmodern Christianity - Intro - Part 1 of 8

It’s moments like these that I truly appreciate the timing of God. I’ve felt the overwhelming feeling that I’ve become spiritually stagnant this entire summer. I’ve been working forty-five to sixty hours a week for the entire summer with church only being what I do each Sunday between 11am-noon. I’ve had little to no contact with any people with whom I would normally bounce ideas off of, and although I started seriously reading my Bible for the first time in my life over the summer, each read was only ever something that influenced me for a couple of days and then it was back to the mundane workday that occupied my time seven-days a week. That’s why it is only appropriate that the week before I head off to college I discover a book that has been the complete wake-up call to everything that has manifested within me over the past year and a half. I look back over the past three years and can break down those three years into four distinct acts of the play that is my life. Act I ended three years ago when I had just left a church that my family had attended for two years. Act II is when I became acquainted with a Nazarene church which proved to be a blessing at the time. That lasted for two years. The amount of change my personality underwent as well as spiritual maturing probably was some of the most profound change I’ve ever had in my short life. Act II was abruptly cut short when I found out some significant information about the church, at the same as saying goodbye to two families that were the catalyst behind my transformation over those two years. Act III, then, started with a large amount of both anger and frustration with the situation that I was projected from by the previous events. Along with the frustration and hate that I accumulated was the constant juggling act I was doing with numerous theological principles, having been heavily affected by the legacy those two families bestowed upon me. And now Act IV is about to begin, not only because of the lifestyle change that college will bring with it, but also the unique spiritual journey that I feel will come out of the book I just purchased.