Post Modern Holiness

http://www.graceandpeacemagazine.org/magazine/archived-issues/21-issue-summerfall-2011/242-postmodern-holiness

A very helpful article by Diane Leclerc in regards to understanding the need to use metaphors in our holiness preaching and teaching in a Post Modern era


Here is a sample:

"I have a theory as to why: I believe we have a whole generation of pastors who were deeply affected by the very legalistic period in the history of the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. Without going into a 20th-century history lesson, let’s just say the world obviously shifted in dramatic ways in the 1960s. For the emerging generation of holiness youth of that day, perfectionism would not cut it. Many left the tradition. I believe it is precisely the generation of pastors either going through this shift or being born in it who perhaps failed to find healthier ways to express our doctrine. We certainly did not want to continue to preach legalism. And so, perhaps, we ceased to preach Christian Perfection at all, or we chose words and metaphors so different from traditional holiness language that my students now fail to recognize what they heard as a unique or distinct message. I find this particularly acute around their understanding of sin, integrity, and sanctification."

Diane will be teaching us at the National Training Seminar in July as all the US and Canada training college staffs gather.