Going Bush

Published: Dec. 8, 2009, 3:08 a.m.

b'On Advent 2 Clay Nelson looks at the difficulties in being prepared in the world we live in and why even God goes bush. In the bush we enter a liminal place where transformation is the key to preparation.\\n"On my Facebook page is a video that asks \\u201cDid you know that the top ten in-demand jobs for 2010 did not even exist in 2004?\\xa0 We are currently preparing students for jobs that don\\u2019t yet exist using technologies that haven\\u2019t been invented in order to solve problems we don\\u2019t even know are problems yet. The amount of technical information is doubling every two years.\\xa0 For students starting a four-year technical degree this means half of what they learn in the first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.\\u201d\\n"In such a world what does it mean to prepare for anything? How can you prepare when the week\\u2019s newspapers you put out for recycling contains more information than a person living in the 18th century would come across in their entire lifetime?"\\nFull text and video links at www.stmatthews.org.nz'