Dennis Mccallum And Jim Leffel Of Xenos Christian Fellowship

Almost anyone on the street would agree that stealing is wrong, but many who adhere to Postmodern philosophy could not explain why it is wrong, except that they just know that it is wrong. Christians can explain their basic knowledge of right and wrong from verses such as Romans 2:15, which says, “They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them” (New International Version). Nonetheless, without an absolutely good God from which to discern evil and good, one can never know where their basic innate sense of morality originates.

Postmodern philosophy argues that no objective truth exists, that truth

First, they suggested that Christians must apply the Socratic method of asking questions to understand the other person’s presuppositions. In this way, the Postmodernist is forced to confront the purpose of his own views, while the Christian can better learn from where the other is coming, spiritually. The second important aspect to beginning to talk about the Gospel with a Postmodernist is to “move [the] hearers carefully to the point of tension created by the internal contradictions inherent in the postmodern outlook” (Dennis and Leffel). In other words, Dennis and Leffel use stories to make others think about their views. For example they say, “Suppose we consider New Guinea, where for centuries tribes have hunted members of other tribes and taken their heads as fetishes. Today, under the influence of Western colonial culture, the government of New Guinea has outlawed head-hunting” (Dennis and Leffel). Postmodernists often say that they have no right to judge the historical culture of New Guinea because there are obvious evils in his own culture. However, by saying this, the Postmodernist is condoning murder! Lastly, using examples like this can help create opportunities for Christians to reveal to Postmodernists the problems that exist in their current worldview. It can also give them a way to kindly show the superiority of the Christian alternative (Dennis and Leffel). Overall, because Postmodernists do not believe in absolute truth, Christians must understand that sharing the Gospel is more of a process than a one-time encounter. Planting the seed of the Gospel needs to be relational, rather than