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A Strategy for Taking Popular Culture Captive to Communicate the Gospel at St Please HONOR the copyright of these documents by not retransmitting or making any additional copies in any form. We appreciate your respectful cooperation. ___________________________ Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) P.O. Box 30183 Portland, Oregon 97294 USA Website: www.tren.com E-mail: [email protected] Phone# 1-800-334-8736 A STRATEGY FOR TAKING POPULAR CULTURE CAPTIVE TO COMMUNICATE THE GOSPEL AT ST. STEPHEN’S UNITED CHURCH A MINISTRY FOCUS PAPER PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE DOCTOR OF MINISTRY BY J. SCOTT BOUGHNER JULY 2008 A Strategy for Taking Popular Culture Captive to Communicate The Gospel at St. Stephen’s United Church J. Scott Boughner Doctor of Ministry 2008 School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary It is the goal of this project to create increased awareness in the members of St. Stephen’s United Church, Oshawa, Ontario of the link between Gospel and culture. This link is presented in a Canadian mainline Protestant theology and Postmodern, suburban context. Evangelism and mission are placed within this context as a means to the continuing revelation of God’s narrative in the world as the congregation translates the truth of the Gospel from the beliefs, values and behaviours of popular culture. Part One will describe the context of St. Stephen’s United Church in Oshawa, Ontario and the problem of outreach in the church. The examination of the link between gospel and culture in Chapter 1 will address this problem of outreach in the Post- Christendom, postmodern context of St. Stephen’s. Chapter 2 will address the mission challenge that St. Stephen’s is not currently facing. This chapter will also discuss how the nature of culture is changing. Part Two will consider the biblical foundations for adapting the gospel to a given culture. Chapter 3 considers a re-engagement with the biblical narratives, with the goal in mind to help the people of St. Stephen’s learn to read them afresh for non-believers. Chapter 4 reflects upon the way of life in which most Christians were raised, which was a Christendom-influenced, modern culture. This chapter also explains how the Church today finds itself in a land that has suddenly become very strange. Part Three presents the strategy for St. Stephen’s: that the congregation might view itself as distinguished from the world but at the same time sent into the world that is loved by God. Chapter 5 looks at which changes to take seriously and what the response of church leadership should be. Chapter 6 will recommend a strategy that does not go back to “the good old days” of the church, but challenges St. Stephen’s to patiently and faithfully identify the themes that God has already prepared in the culture. The final chapter, Chapter 7, will attempt to discern the movement of God’s Holy Spirit and discuss how to evaluate the impact of popular culture on the congregation. Theological Mentor: Kurt Fredrickson, DMin Words: 350 To Cambria ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank St. Stephen’s United Church for their invaluable contribution to this project. Their risky commitment to calling a Doctor of Ministry candidate will leave a lasting legacy for The United Church of Canada and inspiration for evangelism in North Oshawa. Thank you to Frances, who helped get the project started; David, who read my manuscript for clarity; and Kristie, who organized my thoughts and crafted my words into proper standards and professional communication. And I thank my family: my wife, Cambria, and our sons, Matthias and Joshua. Cambria has shown a generosity of spirit and strength of courage born of times when I was not there as a husband and parent. My two sons have brought honour to our family and have grown into young men while I have spent time indulging the requirements of this paper. Their love and support will never be forgotten. iv CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................1 Chapter 1. THE NEED FOR A LINK BETWEEN GOSPEL AND CULTURE AT ST. STEPHEN’S UNITED CHURCH .......................................13 2. PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES CONFRONTING MISSION AND EVANGELISM AT ST.STEPHEN’S UNITED CHURCH………………………………………………………………………..46 3. DISCERNING THE GOSPEL WITHIN POPULAR CULTURE...…………….68 4. DEFINING THE ECCLESIOLOGY OF THE CHURCH………………………96 5. THE MINISTER’S ROLE IN TAKING POPULAR CULTUE CAPTIVE…...119 6. STRATEGY CONTENT AND IMPLEMENATION FOR TAKING POPULAR CULTURE CAPTIVE AT ST. STEPHEN’S……………………...136 7. STRATEGY ASSESSMENT FOR TAKING POPULAR CULTURE CAPTIVE AT ST.STEPHEN’S………………………………………………..166 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………180 APPENDIXES………………………………………………………………………….188 BIBLIOGRAPHY...…………………………………………………………………….190 v INTRODUCTION The congregation of St. Stephen’s United Church (hereafter, St. Stephen’s) is receiving mixed messages about the world in which it lives and is called to do ministry. On one hand, voices in the secular press are saying that the collective Christian spirit and memory are fading. The world is seen by many Christians as being an increasingly alien place in which to live and serve. The Church is being forced to rethink its place in this new culture. Believers are being told that more of the traditional mainline Protestant churches have reached a point where their traditional emphases and responses are no longer captivating. The Church strives to be the conscience of a culture that on the surface appears to no longer clamor to hear its voice. On the other hand, believers are being told in the Great Commission of Jesus to his disciples “to go into the world,” and secondly to baptize and teach. Christian leaders are being told by their seminaries that they are being offered a real opportunity to renew their faith communities and rebuild their institutions in a way that helps build a new world. Canada is further along in postmodern thinking, culture and lifestyle than the United States. Once a conversation has started, people seem interested in and open to what Christians have to say. Once a connection has been made to their everyday lives, people want to listen to what the Church has to offer and they want to consider an appropriate response. Taking in these mixed messages, one may ask which is true, whether Christianity is dying in Canada and the influence of the Church is decreasing, or whether the Church can experience renewal. The farmer who leaves the fields “all in God’s hands” (John 3:35) for a few years will get different results from the one who plants, waters, fertilizes 1 2 and harvests. The church that leaves communicating the gospel “all in God’s hands” will have different results from the one that goes out among the people to reap the message and brings each new seeker home for a continued discussion of his or her spiritual needs. This ministry focus paper will consider how the role of mission and evangelism fit into the lives of church members at St. Stephen’s, as well as the wider community culture in which St. Stephen’s finds itself. St. Stephen’s, a fairly typical old mainline suburban church, will be challenged to rethink the relationship between the Church and the world. Definition of Popular Culture For this ministry focus paper, the term “popular culture” is defined as the amalgamation of beliefs, values and behaviours of Canadians. The most difficult mission field around St. Stephen’s today is the Canadian mass culture, which can be described as Post-Christendom and Postmodern secularity – the lunch rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, and computer rooms within which families live, work, and play. Canadian Popular Culture Popular culture is normally invisible to anyone living within it, and it acts as an internal “map” that shapes the way one lives. The Church is often unaware of the culture’s presence and influence until believers listen to the hurts and yearning of non- believers and establish relationships with them. A Reader’s Digest survey done in 2003 also noted that 55 percent of Canadians believe in karma, almost 30 percent believe in astrology and 18 percent believe in witchcraft and spells.1 The members of St. Stephen’s 1 Gabrielle Bauer, “God and Other Mysteries,” Reader’s Digest, (November 2003): 55. 3 will need to manage their personal anxiety about such different beliefs as they enter into this postmodern context and try to understand what it means to be the Church in this culture. Clearly, Canadian culture has traveled away from the Christian assumptions that used to underpin it . As a consequence, explains Mike Regele in The Death of the Church, “The distance between the culture that is emerging and us grows, while our ability to connect with that culture diminishes.”2 It is not the core of the gospel message nor St. Stephen’s identity as “a caring congregation” (which is the message written on the church’s sign) that is at stake in the widening gap. What is at stake is the cultural “comfort zone” of the congregation. Jesus said that the teacher who has “been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasure as well as old” (Matthew 13:52). Chuck Smith interprets this passage in his book, The End of the World…As We Know It: “So even though we need to remain well- connected to tradition and history (the ‘old treasures’), we also must be concerned with originality (the ‘new treasures’).3 In order to reach the community around St. Stephen’s, the congregation must extend themselves beyond their cultural comfort zones. Canada in the Midst of Transition Canada is at a time of great moral and missiological challenge.
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