Buzz!

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Buzz!

• Chat about examples of Fresh Expressions of
  Church you know of and why they are Fresh
  Expressions of Church.

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What are Fresh Expressions of Church?

• Messy Church Evangelical
• Alternative Worship For Urban
• Mums and Toddlers For Rural
• Outreach For big churches
• Church with a twist For small churches
• Technology Modern worship
• Youth Trendy
  Worship

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Help from the Middle Ages
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To sum up A form of church

• Primarily for the benefit of people who are not
  yet members of any church.
• Set up through listening, service, incarnational
  mission and making disciples.
• Potential to mature.

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Following the Missionary Spirit
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FXCs in Ripon and Leeds
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An FXC? The 10 parameters

1. Is corporately Christian a new and further
   group, not an existing one that has been improved
2. Planters have tried to engage with non-church
   people in their context
3. Meets at least once a month

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An FXC? 10 parameters

• 4. Has a name, that gives an identity
• 5. Is it Anglican? Bishop sees it as part of
  the family
• 6. Some form of recognised leadership
• 7. The majority of members see it as their church

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An FXC? 10 parameters

• 8. Aspiration for the 4 ecclesial / credal
  relationships (up/holy, in/one, out/apostolic,
  of/catholic.)
• 9. Intention to become 3 self in context
  (financing, governing reproducing)
• 10. An intention to be church

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Numbers of FXCs in diocese

• Number of fxC 39
• Number of churches 256
• FXC percentage 15.2
• Av. Church size 62.9
• Av. FXC size 30

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How many in our FXCs?

• Attendance is 1083
• 648 adults and 435 children
• Grown from the original 309
• 239 adults and 70 children who began
• For every 1 person sent, over time another 2.5
  have been added.

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Real numerical growth
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Where?

• Clusters around
• Harrogate
• South
• North

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Traditions

• Evangelical 43.6
• Anglo Catholic 23.1
• Charismatic 41
• Central 46.2
• Respondents often identify with more than one
  tradition.
• 44 FXCs offer communion

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Who is being reached?

• Around 2/3 of FXCs in R L were set up to reach
  un-churched people.
• Just under half of their present membership are
  from unchurched backgrounds.

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What are we offering?
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Nightmare scenario!

• If we lose our understanding that FXCs
  represent growth and do not plan with them in
  mind.

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Dream Scenario

• Every parish dreams of the possibilities of Fresh
  Expressions..

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Dream Scenario

• More leaders trained
• MSi in every parish
• All leaders take part in MSM

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Share the dream

• Forget?
• FXC in every parish?
• Equip leaders
• Read report!