another culture. It had to decide to change and reach its new neighbors or die. Like most churches, it chose to keep its culture and lose its community. Today, the church in North America is in a similar situation. The culture has shifted. While this cultural shift has been more subtle and gradual than the one that took place in Miami, the cultural landscape has definitely changed. Lots of people throw terms around to describe the shift. The term that receives the most attention is “postmodernism.”