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Embracing the Community

Embracing the Community. Sociological Predictions. Modernity. Structural Factors Pluralism Technology and Media Bureaucracy. Social Factors Utilitarianism Urbanism Differentiation Isolation Rootlessness Confusion. Modernity in NOVA. Diverse Sexual Values Loss of Community

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Embracing the Community

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  1. Embracing the Community Sociological Predictions

  2. Modernity Structural Factors • Pluralism • Technology and Media • Bureaucracy Social Factors • Utilitarianism • Urbanism • Differentiation • Isolation • Rootlessness • Confusion

  3. Modernity in NOVA • Diverse Sexual Values • Loss of Community • Busy • Geographically • Socially • Work Domination • Far From Biological Family • Live in Isolated Neighbors • Religious Universalism • Feelings of Anomie

  4. The AMORE Project A Cultural Response Founded on Love

  5. Identity of Truro • 3 Streams: Catholic, Evangelical, Charismatic • Amore: Theology of the Body - Catholic • Amore: Missionality - Evangelical • Amore: Spirituality – Charismatic • Lived Theology • Peacemaking • Invitation • Pro-activity • Amore: Family Communities for Evangelization

  6. FAMILYMarriage: Man and Woman He Created Them • A New Response to Modernity’s Sexual Climate • Countercultural Integrity • Good Sex and Good Religion Go Together • Respect for Gender Difference • Metaphorical Power • Theological Truth Should Affect Daily Life • in the family, community, and world

  7. COMMUNITY • The Church Protects and Pulls Within • Emphasis on Nuclear Family • Generational Reactions • Difficulty of Community Increases the Need for It • Dinner Parties and Picnics Not Enough to Rebuild • Loss of Community Linked to Problems • Sexual promiscuity is linked to the loss of community when family goes, religion follows. • When families are strong, religion is strong, and societies are strong.

  8. EVANGELIZATION • Why Evangelism Can Work: • Want existence to have meaning • “Does religion make a difference?” • Looking for love more than salvation • Burnt out on cheap sex • Fascination with church teaching • Health, satisfaction, self-esteem, happiness, capacity • Within our Catholic form we staunchly proclaim an evangelical hope that speaks to [comforts, addresses] the anomie in the post-modern American soul.” • The Church’s Evangelization: • High Tension Lives with High Integration • The Church feels an “evangelical burden” • Solidarity and Unity Created • Thriving through struggle, even because of it • In the world, not of it

  9. FCE/Amore at Truro Good Family Structure = Good Community Life • Families as Building Blocks of Community • Community is Linked to Sexual Integrity • Theologically Supported • Accountability and Grace • Gap Filling/Healing • Community Families for Evangelization • Social Networks Respected • Social Capital a Key to Conversion • Spiritual Missional Family • In-reach and Outreach Unite

  10. FCE/Amore at Truro:Christ-Couple-Community Love • Family Love of Father • Welcome, protection, spiritual family • Nuptial Love of Christ • Deep, intimate, sacrificial, unconditional, bodily, constant, lasting, personal • Daily Love of Spirit • Everyday Life • Trinitarian Love • Love in Intimate Relationships

  11. Young Adults and Church • We need them involved • They often feel modernity extremely, especially isolation, anomie, and rootlessness • Single and married people need each other • Theologically • Practically • Young Adults want to believe in love and family, and be taught how to do it • Young Adults want multigenerational community and to be part of spiritual families • Young Adults are zealously evangelistic

  12. Wrong Responses to Culture: Accommodation • Sects vs. Churches “distinctive versions” • Jesus Focused and Approachable, even in it’s Orthodoxy • Willing to Sacrifice • Higher Tension Groups • More Costly • More Valuable • Deep meaning • Internal Solidarity • Religious Strength • Adherence to belief • Salience of Faith • Robustness of Faith • Group Participation • Commitment to Mission • Retention • Recruitment • Benefits of Modernity • Modern innovative tools • Adaptation vs. Accommodation

  13. Wrong Responses to Culture: Aggression Aggression Our Response We have to thrive on mission instead and be strategic Blending consistent community integrity and internal solidarity with missionary posture, humility, and incarnational ministry We have to live it out ourselves and show what we protect Jesus should affect every sphere of life • Evangelicalism thrived on distinction through tension, especially about the family • What makes us together now is symbolic boundaries “undermining the efforts to reach those outside” • Sexuality if a “hot button” issue. We have to live it out ourselves. • The Culture War affects every sphere of life.

  14. Wrong Responses to the Culture: Fundamentalism Fundamentalism Type A Fundamentalism Type B Our Response Go out, cultural and physical presence with outside world Understanding Grey Letting Holy Spirit convict • Can mean retreat, separatism “Sheltered Enclave” • Absolutism • Fanaticism Our Response • Don’t be lukewarm • The Church is more than just church • Humility • Spirit-led flexibility • Cultural Christianity • Hypocrisy • Status quo

  15. Conclusions • Christian faith can be answer to modern anomie • Lack of community can lead to sexual promiscuity • Cultural separation can fuel growth and vitality • Family, Community, Evangelization all goes together • Peacemaking avoids aggression • Orthodoxy avoids accommodation • Evangelism avoids fundamentalism A • Humility and love avoids fundamentalism B

  16. Works Cited • Baucum, Tory. “Why Anglicanism?” Truro Anglican Church. Web. • Davidman, Lynn. Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Print. • Hawkins, Barry. Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2008. GoogleBooks. • Hunter, James. The Struggle to Define America: Making Sense of the Battles over the Family, Art, Education, Law, and Politics. New York: Basic Books, 1991. GoogleBooks. • Koleva, Spassena et al. “Tracing the threads: How Five Moral Concerns (Especially Purity) Help Explain Culture War Attitudes.” Journal of Research in Personality, 2012, Vol.46 (2), pp.184-194. Journal of Research in Personality. Elselvier. UVa Virgo. Web. • Konieczny, Mary Ellen. The Spirit’s Tether: Family, Work, and Religion among American Catholics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Print. • Putnam, Robert and Campbell, David. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2010. Print. • Regenerus, Mark D. Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print. • Smith, Christian. American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. Print. • Wuthnow, Robert. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty-and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007.

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