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Discipling the contemporary self – Part 2

Rebuilders

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The Third Seat Is Absolute Atomization

The third seat is maybe not getting married or if you're married continually going through choice anxiety, but then the right thing. So places tremendous pressure on the individual. And I think what it does is moving from the sort of social structures of surrogate communities to absolute atomization. We connected like in a network, but there's no centrifugal - just a centrifugal and centripetal wrong. It's like the energy goes in and energy goes out. The centrifugal is a move away. This is atomization. What we're told to pursue is experience, excitement and stimulation. To follow Jesus, you actually need to focus upon him.

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