Parishes in 2006 engaged with fresh expressions of church since 2000

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Parishes in 2006 engaged with fresh expressions
of church since 2000
30 planning to begin a fresh expression in next
2 yrs
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Among parishes with fresh expressions

• 216,100 people are involved in fresh expressions
  of church
• Each participating parish reported on average 50
  people involved .
• across two generations 25 adults, 25 children
  young people
• (ie usually adults either young people or
  children in ratio 12)

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• The point of Fresh Expressions is the point of
  the Church itself, that is to provide a place
  where Christ is set free in our midst, if one can
  use such an expression..
• So youre going to hear something now about
  being the Church, and being the Church of
  England, not about something marginal, something
  eccentric, but about the very life blood of who
  we are and what we are.

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The Declaration of Assent

• which faith the Church is called upon to
  proclaim afresh in each generation

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both-and
continue to grow and develop the church as it is
establish fresh expressions of church
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This is not new but fresh
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Why are we doing this ?

• The nature of God himself
• The nature of the incarnation
• The nature of the cross resurrection

no mission is possible without theology.
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What is really happening out there?
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Changing culture
What is taking place is not merely the continued
decline of organised Christianity but the death
of the culture which formerly conferred Christian
identity upon the British people as a
whole. Callum Browne Death of Christian Britain
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2007 Tear Fund survey of 7000 adults in contact
or not with church
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Later intelligence its worse than
Mission-shaped Church thought
NON CHURCHED
DE CHURCHED
Tear Fund 2006 statistics from 7 thousand home
interviews
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Open To attend church as they know it
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Closed to attend church as they know it
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A fresh expression is a form of church for our
changing culture established primarily for the
benefit of people who are not yet members of
any church. It will come into being through
principles of listening, service, incarnational
mission and making disciples. It will have the
potential to become a mature expression of
church shaped by the gospel and the enduring
marks of the church and for its cultural
context.
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not apply best resources to biggest problems
but to our best opportunities.
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The Spectrum
Large Projects Funded Posts BMO
Parish based Lay led Shift to church
New Communities Wider than parish Some funding
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Who is it for? Who is it by? Who is it with?
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What are some of the issues we face?
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the multi layered church
a midweek all-age after school service
a Sunday evening Youth congregation
Traditional service
A network of midweek cells assembling monthly
A small community in a new housing area
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Public worship probably isnt the best starting
point
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Prayer and Support
Loving Service
Evangelism and Disciple- Making
Forming Community
Evolving Worship
Listening and Following Gods call
Connection
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Mission shapes the church
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The reality is that mainstream culture no longer
brings people to the church door. We can no
longer assume that we can automatically
reproduce ourselves, because the pool of people
who regard church as relevant or important is
decreasing with every generation Mission
shaped church report p11

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church planting is a process by which a seed of
the life and message of Jesus, embodied by a
community of Christians is immersed for mission
reasons in a particular cultural or geographic
context. The intended consequence is that it
roots there, coming to life as a new
indigenous body of Christian disciples well
suited to continue in mission. MSC report
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Half the picture
Jerusalem
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The eccentric effects
Judea
The centre and the Acts story shift Samaria is
not a return ticket story moves from a focus on
Peter to Paul the Church goes west church is
done differently among Gentiles
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The 2nd view
Jerusalem
Is the Holy Spirit is eccentric?
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Modification of the existing is not enough
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This might change US
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TOGETHER TO GODS FUTURE

• do not try to call them back to where they
  were, and do not try to call them to where you
  are, beautiful as that place may seem to you. You
  must have the courage to go with them to a place
  that neither you nor they have been before.
• Vincent Donovan

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• INCARNATION - The world to enter
• CROSS - The world to counter
• RESURRECTION - The world to anticipate

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Welcome the three eccentrics
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The 3 eccentrics

• Who are the Philips?
• A Dangerous Deacon?
• Allow space for the unknowns
• Discover Cornelius
• who evangelizes who
• Pray for Pauls
• Eccentrics will do it differently

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The challenge of discipleship
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The nature of the church
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OHCA
Enduring Marks
Four linked Journeys
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we have to ask much more radically how do we
structure a society in which it goes on being
possible ,even likely that, people will meet
Jesus and, in meeting Jesus will want more people
to meet Jesus?
Rowan Williams, Keynote address MSC Conference
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Dont end with church but continue with mission
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Roxboroughs 5 Steps

• Awareness
• Understanding
• Evaluation
• Experimentation
• Commitment

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• The existing parish system alone is
• no longer able to deliver its underlying
• missionary purpose
• We need a mixed economy
• There are only expressions
• 4. All churches need reshaping