Acid trips or Aplogetics? How to reach the modern Seeker through the Power of Story.
My professional life remains in the middle of the summer crunch- and so my own blog posts are still on hiatus- though rest assured, the work on Interregnum, Book Three of The Seekers Series, continues apace- and the book is still slated for release by the end of the year. So I’m taking this opportunity to share with you something interesting that recently blessed me. A man I know and who I consider a friend, Thomas Umstadtt Jr., just published the latest episode of The Christian Publishing Show- in which he explores the question: “Acid trips or Apologetics? How to reach he modern Seeker through the Power of Story.”
The content was so fantastic I had to feature it here.
As you may know, I spent a great deal of my adult life as an atheist before- thanks to the workings of our Creator God- I eventually came to the truth and was saved.
My choice (at a very young age) to reject God and to embrace a materialistic/atheist world view was largely driven by the 20st century scientific arguments of “billions of years” and “the Proven Science of Evolution”, the watering down of the Christian faith in the main-line church where I grew up in, the disdain for Christianity which the culture had adopted in general, and the particularly rabid strain of that disdain- or more accurately contempt- which prevailed in the halls of education . . . and most of all in the Speculative Fiction I so loved.
Yes, there is great Power in Story.
So, you would think that it would have been arguments along the very same lines which would have led to my eventual choice to seek God. But in fact, it wasn’t. Modern apologetics helped reinforce that choice, once I was already seeking Him. But logical arguments did not precipitate that Search for Truth.
This month, Thomas Umstattd, Jr. digs deeper into the state of the culture and the difficulties of reaching the current generations with that same Truth, given the Post Modern world in which we now live. And he’s done so with what some may consider some controversial ideas, such as:
Christianity has always been under attack. The current weapon of choice is “deconstruction.”Recent generations that were raised on pornography now reject Christian morality and then deconstruct their faith altogether. As a Christian writer in the 21st century, you’re not fighting a theological battle over truth but an emotional battle over morality.
Or:
But the political question today is very different. It’s moral. It’s spiritual . . .One party that advocates for killing babies and “transitioning” children.At the last political protest I attended, the Democrats were chanting, “Hail Satan,” and the Republicans were singing “Amazing Grace.”This is 21st-century politics.
Read the full article- or listen to the podcast– and let me know what you think!:
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