Postmodern Spirituality 2

In my current reflection I am reminded of much work completed for my Celtic Mission and Spirituality Assignment. One of the questions I grappled with then was how to keep distinctly Christian in mission. There is much in the Celtic tradition that takes people as they are and moves them on in their faith journey by using symbols and images that are familiar to them. The Celtic cross for example is full of pagan symbolism, far removed from a Christian ethos, that was 'Christianised' by Celtic missionaries.
I concluded that yes there is room for different approaches and routes to faith, but there are dangers of misunderstandings that take the seeker away from Jesus as the Centre rather than toward Him. The difference comes with revelation. It is not people seeking after God, but God who has revealed himself to people. The starting point of the Christendom church is that people are sinners in need of salvation, and repentence often is a call to turn our back on what we have known and believed in the past, and turn to God. The starting point of the Celtic tradition is that we are made in the image of God and that is something to celebrate. This was the starting point of Jesus himself, with the cross being the culmination of the message rather than the beginning of it. If we encourage people to live in the knowledge and privilege they are made in the image of God and help them to celebrate life in all its fullness, as they learn more about what that means they will encounter the truth of the cross as the revealing of God's love and his desire to restore people into the image of God we were created to reflect.

Post modern Spirituality

A very interesting conversation last week. We repeated a focal point and leaflet, revamped slightly, about hard places. People are invited to take a small stone and symbolically place it in a situation that is hard. One of the regulars to the Hub commented she knew exactly where she was going to put her stone. That sounded to me like an invitation to engage in conversation. She shared the problems she was having with a neighbour and finished with the comment 'If that doesn't work can I bring it back and exchange it for a Voodoo doll!' It wasn't a deeply serious conversation by any means, but it make me think. Postmodern spirituality is often a mishmash of different ideas and the boundary between that which is 'holy and of God' and that which clearly isn't is blurred. Questions I am reflecting on as a result are;
In our instant fix society how do we encourage people to wait on the Lord for answers rather than dash off in search of an alternative that might work better?
Does this sort of thinking mean the boundaries between the sacred and secular are coming down, but at what cost? How can we encourage someone's spiritual search to be distinctly Christian?