"Essentially, [emerging worship] is wholesale deconstruction--the dismantling of a multiplicity of worship forms (both pre-Reformation and post-Reformation) followed by the postmodern art of pastiche: creating something unprecedented out of the pieces at hand. Add to that a strong penchant for paradox (the juxtaposition of seeming opposites) and eclecticism (the combination of seemingly distant and unrelated elements) and you get a palette of colors that is virtually endless. (226)"
Sally Morgenthaler calls this approach to worship "radical recontexting", but after reading her article... I am calling it heresy and/or utter chaos. Of all the views we have read so far, hers is the most far-fetched and the most frightening in my opinion. Since when should postmodernity, eclecticism and de-constructionism infiltrate the church? Why are these worldviews (which in many ways represent the antithesis of what Christ taught) being welcomed into Christ's Body with open arms?
To Sally I would say: it is wonderful to appreciate the different colors on an artist's palette. However, when you mix them altogether, you don't get beautiful. You get brown!
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