The New South and Prodigal Southerners

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The New South and Prodigal Southerners

• John.chandler_at_vbmb.org

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The 3 Souths

• Dixie
• TNT
• Down-Home
• Cuisine, Manners, Customs
• Local, Local, Local!

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New Southerners

• 45 and 22
• Calgon, take me away!
• Hell is a gated community.
• Looking for quality time.

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35 and 18 Spirituality

• AA Principle
• You cease growing at the point your alcoholism
  took over, and dont grow again until recovery
  has begun.

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People are 35 physically and 18 spiritually

• Or 62 and 40
• Or 25 and 10
• Or 50 and 6

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Theological and Spiritual Assessment of this
Person

• Work rich and time poor
• Not dwelling richly in the reign of God
• Has gotten hungry after doing without (crabby)
• Is having a hard time getting fed in many
  churches (delivery mechanisms)
• Often one and done in several churches

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Responding to Prodigals

• A faint trace of the Garden of Eden.
• Respect their imago Dei and longings
• Assume no churchification.
• Teach what a new learner should know.

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The New South and Prodigal Southerners

• Dr. John Chandler
• Courageous Churches
• Virginia Baptist Mission Board Copy right John
  Chandler, 2000
• John.chandler_at_vbmb.org