Encouraging Missional Churches

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Encouraging Missional Churches

• Introductions
• Name, Presbytery, familiar with missional
  church?
• Missional Church briefly defined
• Review the background of missional church
• Missional Church stories from presbyteries
• Initiatives for your presbytery and church

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Missional Church

• Missio Dei it is Gods mission
• God is a missionary God
• The Bible is a missionary document
• Gods people are a sent (missio) people
• The local church is not a chapel
• The local church is not a dispenser of religious
  goods and services
• The local church lives in a time of
  disestablishment (post-Christendom)

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Everyone wants to be missional

• Where did it all begin?
• With Jesus!!
• International Missionary Council
• Willingen, Germany, 1952
• Lesslie Newbigin

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Lesslie Newbigin
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Everyone wants to be missional

• Where did it all begin?
• With Jesus!!
• International Missionary Council
• Willingen, Germany, 1952
• Lesslie Newbigin
• David Bosch

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David Bosch
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Everyone wants to be missional

• Where did it all begin?
• With Jesus!!
• International Missionary Council
• Willingen, Germany, 1952
• Lesslie Newbigin
• David Bosch
• Gospel and Our Culture Network

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Missional Church in North America
Darrell Guder
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Missional Church in North AmericaThe Gospel and
Our Culture Network
George Hunsberger
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Missional Church stories from the presbyteries

• Missional Presbyteries (2000 2005)

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Missional Church stories from the presbyteries

• Missional Presbyteries (2000 2005)
• Stan Ott Acts 165 Initiative
  www.vitalchurchesinstitute.com
• called by God
• formed by the Spirit
• sent by Christ into the world to join the risen
  Christ in what Christ is already doing

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Missional Church stories from the presbyteries

• Missional Presbyteries (2000 2005)
• Stan Ott Acts 165 Initiative
  www.vitalchurchesinstitute.com
• Church Innovations www.churchinnovations.org
• Partnership for the Missional Church

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Church InnovationsPartnership for the Missional
Church
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Partnership for the Missional Church

• Dwelling in the Word
• Spiritual Disciplines
• Careful listening and learning
• About your church
• About your community
• Trying some missional experiments
• Reflecting on your experience
• Learning with other churches

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Partnership for theMissional Church
Learning and Growing
Phase 3 - Visioning for Embodiment
Phase 2 - Experimenting
Phase 1 - Discovering
Preparation, finding leaders
Sharing Mentoring
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Missional Church stories from the presbyteries

• Missional Presbyteries (2000 2005)
• Stan Ott Acts 165 Initiative
  www.vitalchurchesinstitute.com
• Church Innovations www.churchinnovations.org
• Partnership for the Missional Church
• Other resources
• Center for Parish Development www.missionalchurch
  .org
• Allelon www.allelon.com
• Presbyterian Global Fellowship
  www.presbyterianglobalfellowship.org
• others

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What can you do?

• Find partners