So they view everything as a brand, which means they can be highly skeptical, and for good reason. Josh: They’re a generation that’s been marketed to their entire lives. Josh and his wife, Wendy, share a laugh during a Cru ® City ministry staff meeting.ĬS: What’s distinct about the way millennials view the world? So my motivation was: Can we figure out some more effective ways to help these young people explain the gospel? I realized that students graduating into the workplace were not sharing their faith. Josh: Five years ago, my wife, Wendy, and I moved to Portland, Oregon, to work for the City ministry of Cru. Josh: People who are born between 1980 to 1998.ĬS: What motivated you to study your generation? Scooters work year round in this city, if riders wear parkas in winter. Josh grew up in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys riding a scooter to appointments. Born in 1980, he considers himself a hybrid between two generations. With these questions in mind, Cru ® Storylines talked with Josh Chen-a Cru staff member, a millennial and one who works with and studies millennials. It's worth a try.How do we more effectively reach this younger generation with the gospel? 'I dance in the morning when the world is begun.'. Sometimes, for a change I sing the whole song in the present tense. I could have written another for the words of 'Lord of the Dance' (some people have), but this was so appropriate that it seemed a waste of time to do so. Their hymns were odd, but sometimes of great beauty: from one of these ("Simple Gifts") I adapted this melody. Even the cloaks and bonnets that the women wore were distinctly stylish, in a sober and forbidding way. They also made furniture of a functional, lyrical simplicity. Dancing, for them, was a spiritual activity. They established celibate communities - men at one end, women at the other though they met for work and worship. They hived off to America in 1774, under the leadership of Mother Anne. This sect flourished in the United States in the nineteenth century, but the first Shakers came from Manchester in England, where they were sometimes called the "Shaking Quakers". The fact that many Christians have regarded dancing as a bit ungodly (in a church, at any rate) does not mean that Jesus did. We are told that David danced (and as an act of worship too), so it is not impossible. Whether Jesus ever leaped in Galilee to the rhythm of a pipe or drum I do not know.
I sing of the dancing pattern in the life and words of Jesus. But Jesus is the one I know of first and best.
By Christ I mean not only Jesus in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us.
But in fact people did sing it and, unknown to me, it touched a chord." I thought many people would find it pretty far flown, probably heretical and anyway dubiously Christian. He later stated, "I did not think the churches would like it at all. In writing the lyrics to "Lord of the Dance", Carter was inspired partly by Jesus, but also by a statue of the Hindu deity Shiva as Nataraja (Shiva's dancing pose) which sat on his desk.
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