Why did the [5th Century] Souther Picts fall away? …the first generation of Southern Pict Christians understood the Christian message and ethic and became real Christians, but the second or third generation simply lapsed into [nominalism]. That has happened in other young churches; indeed, every church struggles with the challenge of passing on the meaning of the faith to each succeeding generation…
…the Southern Picts understood enough from Roman Christianity to know, say, that they wanted to go to heaven, and they learned the Roman rituals enough to go to the motions—but without understanding enough Christian meaning to pass it on, in their own ways, to their children…
…the people learned the foreign forms, but they did not understand the meaning…
George G. Hunter III, The Celtic Way Of Evangelism, p. 80
This is a seriously great book. Look back to the 4th-5th century struggle between Roman and Celtic Christianity to understand the potential for the Church today to move well into Postmodern culture in the West.
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