4/18: EPIC Times @ St. Arbuck's

 
Well, if you were in 'class' today at St. Arbuck's..

And if you noted on the class schedule the topic was "The
Church in EPIC Times"..

You might get that one of the reasons we took this field trip was to follow up on our discussion from last class (see post on 4/16) and get some help on question #14 on the final exam.

• the "modern"  and "Gutenberg" world   (RRWI=Rational, Representative. Word-Based, Individual)
• -the "postmodern' and "Google"  world (EPIC=Experiential, Participatory, Image-Driven)

 Leonard Sweet not only created the EPIC acronym, but wrote the nook, "The Gospel According to Starbucks," in which he suggests that the church can learn a lot about our current EPIC (Experiential, Participatory, Image-Driven, Connectivity) culture.

In what ways do you see Starbucks as living out an EPIC ethic?

Read some excerpts and summaries of his book, see this and this.



Now note Van DerLaan's slideshow on Greek vs. Hebrew culture  here and   here.  
Audio here

 Finally, remember our conversations about bounded sets and centered sets.

Could these three grids collate?  See this article (scroll to part C), for example, on sets and Greek/Hebrew.

RRWI/Gutenberg                                    EPIC/Google
Greek                                                    Hebrew
Bounded Set                                           Centered Set

Sweet suggests that we are living in the century  (21)that is most like  Jesus' century (1st) than any before.

Times are EPIC for church in culture.

Churches in our area even meet at Starbuck's.
No wonder they call it St. Arbuck's..

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This is from a Bible college class I taught: