A fresh expression

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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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The Declaration of Assent

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

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This is not new but fresh
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Parishes in 2006 engaged with fresh expressions
of church since 2000
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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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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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Ask the right questions
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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The nature and quality Of community
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to live in one place no longer means to live
together and living together no longer
means living in the same place. Ulrich Beck
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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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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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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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Modification of the existing is not enough
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we understood mission one way and organised
life to accomplish it. We have awakened to find
out the mission moved on us. To keep focusing
on mission, we have to turn the furniture around
and face a different direction. We may even have
to move into another room. Loren Mead. The
Once and Future Church
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Look for 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 model of Jesus life

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

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The nature of the church
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Holy
Worship
Up
Community
Mission
In
Out
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Apostolic
Of
Connexion
Catholic
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