A Solemn Vow

I have just taken a solemn vow to never use the word “postmodern” in a sermon or article again, unless the article (or blog entry) is about why I refuse to use the term. The reason for the vow is that using the word is totally unhelpful. Say “postmodern” and some people hear “relativism” and others hear “funky worship,” while still others hear “this guy is trying to be an intellectual elitist by using a term he knows 99% of us don’t understand.”
From now on, I’m simply going to talk about “our world” or “contemporary culture” or the “neighborhood,” since that’s what most people relate to anyway. If we are now living in a transition time between two intellectual epochs known as postmodernity, then its time to stop defining it as some kind of entity out there be to studied, dissected, and then referred to from afar, and instead start getting down to the hard work of enculturating the gospel in the postmodern/modern world around us(that’s the last time, I promise) so that Jesus is present and recognizable in some form or fashion.