It's amazing that I find in your books all of the things that God has revealed to me, and much more I assure you, but having someone else...
...say it gave it such validity. Thank you.
However I can't help but wonder that if modernity is a paradigm and so is post-modernity, then wouldn't Jesus' response be somewhere above the two, on that higher ground, like your character 'Neo' says? What if we were never fully utilising our potential within paradigms, what if we were best suited to use paradigms and relevancy to our advantage but still exist outside the matrix of it all.
I hope I'm not confusing you. I'm trying my best to explain what has been swimming around in my head these past few weeks. I guess what I really want to know is : when we realise that reality can exist in two forms -- absolute and relative, how do we address each? I think to the relative reality we should be relative, i.e at this time post modern, but to the absolute reality our posture should be unaffected by human culture or persuasion, i.e it should be supernatural. What would happen if we walked in the supernatural like Neo learnt to do, outside of the matrix, and then went in to the matrix in a relevant Postmodern posture, taking these supernatural powers with us only instead of coming to 'kick ass' we come to build alliances.
Answer: Thanks for your note. Yes, I agree the goal is not to limit what we are as followers of Christ to any cultural category, modern or postmodern or whatever. I believe that being an authentic Christian requires us to engage with our times (as you say enter the matrix) but never to be captive to our culture. The gospel itself is a liberation from cultural captivity, calling us to be in but not of whatever world we find ourselves in.