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Excerpts from Soul Tsunami by Leonard Sweet Every generation before now learned about the world directly from authority figures through seat-based learning. Parents, teachers, and priests, among others, were the credentialing gateways to knowledge: social and academic and religious. Now kids learn about the world on their own from people they don't know, never see, and never touch. Authority figures have lost their authority. Authority increasingly is something earned, not learned. All traditional authority figures are toppling. This generation doesn't want to "study under" any authority figure; they want to study the authority figure. They don't need "authorities" to help them gain information. But ironically, they need "authorities" more than ever before to mentor them in how to use, perform, process, and model the information. - pages 186-187 Christianity is the first religion that was not temple based. Jesus decentralized the temple. He made every local expression of the church an expression of the temple (1 Cor. 3:16). To determine what degree your church is temple based, look at your budget and figure out what percentage of your money is spent on maintaining your temple. Nor was Christianity priest based. The decentralization of ministry in the glocal church means a decentralization of leadership and responsibility from one person (priest) to a collective community of "priests". Modern versus postmodern ministry is the difference between creating a church that reaches out to the world and creating mature believers who team together to reach out to the world. The church must begin to wander outside its usual haunts. Can it go "over the wall"? - pages 170-171