A Sabbath Day Thought

I may be stretching a bit here but this short quote from David Wells, in his book No Place for Truth, seems appropriate as a meditation for a Sabbath day. 

Technology per se does not assault the gospel, but a technological society will find the gospel irrelevant. What can be said of technology can also be said of many other facets of culture that are similarly laden with value (p. 11).

Could there be a link between our culture's worship of technology and it's disdain for Sabbath worship as well as the gospel?

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Comments

[Bryan Halferty]

Indeed, Eugene Peterson has made some remarks about this, as has someone he quotes often Albert Borgmann.
bryan

[r10b]

...but a technological society will find the gospel irrelevant

Why is that?

I have not read Wells' book nor have I read Peterson's remarks, but can someone briefly tell me why a technological society would find the Gospel irrelevant? What is a "technological society" and at what point does (or did) technological achievement cause this irrelevancy?

[Brian Thornton]

I'm a little confused by some of your terminology here. By 'Sabbath', do you mean Saturday worship or Lord's Day worship? By 'culture', do you mean the world or the church IN our present day culture?

The culture - if this relates to the secular world - will ALWAYS have disdain for worship and the gospel...regardless of technology. The first century obviously did not have the technology we have today, and the culture of that day had just as much disdain for worhip and the gospel as our present-day culture does.

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