An 8-Track Church in a CD World: The Modern Church in the Postmodern World by Robert N. Nash, Jr., Hardcover

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From the Inside Flap:

"In the last twenty years Americans have witnessed dramatic changes in the wider culture," Nash writes. "Yet the local churches have hardly changed...People attend out of loyalty to the institution and their own investment in the building rather than because of any real sense of spiritual enhancement. And we continue to 'do church' as if people will endure this kind of tedium forever...We pretend that people want the same things from church in the 1990s that they wanted in the 1950s. For this reason, Christianity in America in the late 20th century is deeply troubled."

Loren Mead states in the foreword, "Nash is helpful to us in exploring the painful cultural divide we straddle-between a world he describes as the 'modern world' and the world emerging around us, 'the postmodern world.' He clarifies for us how that very change is shifting the ground under our feet, making obsolete the practices of yesterday; making obsolete, even some of the institutional structures and the ways we have articulated the deepest things of our faith... New language and new structures will be needed for gospel truth to be articulated in this world of postmodernity." For a future to materialize, though, the church must first take a hard look in the mirror. Only then can corrective measures be taken to help make the church a more relevant part of people's live in the 21st century. If changes aren't made, the church will become obsolete-much like an 8-track tape in today's digital world.