Stirred, Not Shaken: Themes For An Emerging Generation
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As fewer and fewer GenXers and Millennials fill the pews of mainline churches, those who seek to speak to them are faced with three possibilities: write off these generations as lost and unreachable, which the church has done with great success over the last two decades; attempt to become more "relevant" with "fill-in-the-blank" sermons, which has proven to have little lasting success; or to exegete the culture of these generations in order to discover the points of intersection between their stories and the story of Jesus. Mark Feldmeir shows preachers how to do just that.
Feldmeir, himself a GenXer, argues for four hermeneutical themes which preachers would do well to explore with clarity and intention as they seek to speak to the emerging generations of GenXers and Millennials (those born in 1964 or later). These themes are ambiguity, suffering, reconciliation, and transformation. Feldmeir explores each theme both culturally and biblically, offering glimpses of how these themes are expressed through music, art, film, literature, and pop culture, and in the life of Jesus. He follows each thematic development with several model sermons to support and strengthen his argument.
About the Author
Mark R. Feldmeir is pastor of Santa Margarita United Methodist Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, a growing congregation with an average age of 35. He is the author of Testimony to the Exiles: Sermons for GenXers and Other Postmoderns (Chalice Press, 1993).
Stirred, Not Shaken: Themes For An Emerging Generation,Mark Feldmeir,Chalice Press,0827234597,21st century,Christianity - Christian Life - Pop Culture Issues,General,Preaching,Religion,Religion - Worship - Preaching,Sermons,Sermons - Christian,Sermons, American,United Methodist Church (U.S.)
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