ReGenerating the Church Church in a Changing Culture

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Re-Generating the ChurchChurch in a Changing
Culture

• January, 2007

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• Christians are starting
• forms of church
• for a changing culture

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• The Church of England and Methodist Church have
  named these fresh expressions of church and are
  encouraging them.

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• All churches shaped by mission
• Fresh Expressions alongside traditional churches
  in a mixed economy

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fresh expressions a mixed economy
rowan williams archbishop
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the mixed economy church
a midweek all-age after school service
a Sunday Evening Deanery Youth congregation
Parish Communion
A network of midweek cells assembling monthly
A small community in a new housing area
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Listening to a changing world
Changing Sundays
Church at different times
Church for different networks
Changing relationships
Church in different cultures
Changing cultures
Church for beginners
Less knowledge of faith
Deeper spiritual hunger
Church for disconnected explorers
fresh expressions of church
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Baptism Education Marriage Festivals Sunday Sickne
ss Crisis Bereavement Death
The mission task Draw the people who come from
the door to font to the altar
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• The mission task becomes
• Go to where people are
• Form communities
• Make disciples there

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Luke 5.1-11

• Put out into deep water
• Let down the nets
• We have caught nothing
• A miraculous harvest
• Partnership
• Go away from me Lord
• A commission
• They left everything and followed

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Portsmouth Readers Conference

• Mission Shaped Church

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The Five Marks of Mission

• To proclaim the good news of the kingdom
• To teach, nurture and baptise new believers
• To respond to human need by loving service
• To seek to transform unjust structures of society
• To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation
  and sustain and renew the earth

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• Mission is finding out what God is doing and
  joining in

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• Ethiopian eunuch
• Peter and Cornelius
• Ananias and Saul
• Barnabas
• Lydia
• Corinth

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• 12 Disciples
• Synagogue
• Hall of Tyrannus
• Signs and Wonders
• Wider Mission
• Public preaching
• You know how I lived

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Prayer and Support
Listening and Following a Call
Connection
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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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a definition

• 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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• If church is what happens when people
  encounter the Risen Jesus and commit themselves
  to sustaining and deepening that encounter in
  their encounter with each other, there is plenty
  of theological room for diversity of rhythm and
  style, so long as we have ways of identifying the
  same living Christ at the heart of every
  expression of Christian life in common
• Archbishop Rowan Williams

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Growing to Maturity
Holy
Worship
Up
Out
In
Fellowship
Mission
One
Apostolic
Of
Belonging
Catholic
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A Distinction
A fresh expression of what we are already doing
Beginning afresh with a new community
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A fresh expression of what we already do Shift 1
Something the Church does
Something which is Church
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A fresh expression of what we already do Shift 2
Midweek Activity
Youth Group
Bible Study
Service in Residential Home
Parish Communion
One Service at the Heart of Everything
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the mixed economy church
a midweek all-age after school service
a Sunday Evening Deanery Youth congregation
Parish Communion
A network of midweek cells assembling monthly
A small community in a new housing area
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Portsmouth Readers Conference

• Session 02

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Moving Forward

• DVDs booklets tabloid website
• Vision days
• Six week course
• Mission Shaped Ministry the one year course
• Online guide

www.freshexpressions.org.uk
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the mixed economy church
a midweek all-age after school service
a Sunday Evening Deanery Youth congregation
Parish Communion
A network of midweek cells assembling monthly
A small community in a new housing area
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Discipleship Mission Shaped Living
Reader Ministry as focussed discipleship
Light structures Outwardly facing Making and
sustaining disciples
Whole life, Kingdom focussed Outwardly
facing Mission shaped
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Ministry in a mixed economy Church
Connecting and Sending
Apostles and Prophets
Episcope Oversight Ministries
Reader as leader in mission
Reader as builder
Reader as pioneer
Sustaining missionary community
Beginning new communities
Evangelists
Pastors and Teachers
Diaconal Ministries
Presbyteral Ministries
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• in honour and dishonour,
• in ill repute and good repute.
• We are treated as imposters and yet are true,
• as unknown and yet are well known,
• as dying and see we are alive
• as punished and not killed
• as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing
• as poor, yet making many rich
• as having nothing yet possessing everything.

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