Hello, this is Clarissa Shannon, and I'm the Chocolate Knox's Daughter.

While you wait for the cross-politic to start, enjoy this short clip from the pub.

In this talk, up until now, what we've been hearing a lot is what you need to do, how we need to respond to what's

going on in our society to the renewal of the church and things like that. I'm actually going to take it a step back from there.

When you read about all the various tribes of Israel coming to join David, it made a very interesting statement about the tribe of Isikar. It said that the men of

Isikar understood their times and what needed to be done in Israel.

And what I want to do is to spend a little bit of time talking about understanding our times.

We are facing an incredible challenge broadly in the culture right now, but the good news is we've got the solution.

We have what the culture is looking for. Now where I want to start

is actually going back about a hundred years to this gentleman. That's Max Weber. Max Weber is a sociologist, very important

thinker in a lot of ways. Some of you are probably familiar with the idea

of the vapor thesis which is a connection between capitalism and Protestantism

especially Calvinism. That's not what I want to look at though. This is from a

speech that he gave in

1918 that was later printed in the book, Sciences of Vocation. And this was his

assessment of his day in 1918. The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization

and above all by the disenchantment of the or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations.

It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

What Vabor is saying here is a kind of a long quote, but the point of this is that in the modern world, in the world of science and bureaucracy and technology, there's no room for enchantment. There's no room. The word that

he uses here is really, we translate it into English as disenchantment, the German is literally something like the

demagification of the world.

It's taking the magic out of it.

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