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last week
Week 1
Week 2
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worship
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• This weeks theme . . .
• Re-imagining church
• Part 1 Community

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Where do you belong?
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• Where do you belong?
• Four different arenas where human beings can
  belong
• Public space
• Social space
• Private space
• Intimate space
• Edward T. Hall

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the search to belong
public space
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the search to belong
You want to be where everybody knows your name
social space
And they're always glad you came!
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the search to belong
personal space
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the search to belong
intimate space
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Where do you belong?
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the passive consumer
I want what I want Satisfy Me! Passive
consumer!
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the passive consumer

• healthcare
• education
• policing
• public sector reform

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satisfy me!
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satisfy me!

• a demand to be entertained
• Worship is a form of entertainment If people
  are not entertained, they dont feel they are
  participating.
• a US pastor in The Washington Post

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satisfy me!
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satisfy me!
co-responsibility, co-production and community
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satisfy me!
Satisfy Me I want what I want God loves
Me Its My worship My healing that counts
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me worship
from www.sermonspice.com
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consumer society has much we can celebrate
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but consumer society has a price tag
It privileges the affluent well-off and
excludes the poor. It has harmed the environment
and championed choice at the expense of other,
sometimes more important values. It can lead to
hedonistic lifestyles that downplay moral
obligations and appeal to the baser instincts.
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but consumer society has a price tag
fresh expressions can be consumerist . . . . . .
but can also nurture community
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community and those on the edge

• a biblical theme
• God is not just saving isolated individuals but
  building a new community
• Restoring the image of God who is community
• Jesus modeled an inclusive communitymen women,
  rich poor, insiders outsiders

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fresh expressions on the edge
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fresh expressions on the edge
Listening Serving Building relationships
Evangelism Worship

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Weve got a product but weve forgotten the
person. Roy Searle - Northumbria Community
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pause for praise

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community
the sum of relationships a group of individuals
has with one another or their common experience
of sharing together
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community
Your task in this group work is to rewrite Acts
2.42-47 into the opposite sense
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community
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching
and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the
prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many
wonders and signs were being done by the
apostles. All who believed were together and had
all things in common they would sell their
possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds
to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they
spent much time together in the temple, they
broke bread at home and ate their food with glad
and generous hearts, praising God and having the
goodwill of all the people. And day by day the
Lord added to their number those who were being
saved. Acts 242-47
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community
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching
and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the
prayers. Awe came upon everyone, because many
wonders and signs were being done by the
apostles. All who believed were together and had
all things in common they would sell their
possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds
to all, as any had need. Day by day, as they
spent much time together in the temple, they
broke bread at home and ate their food with glad
and generous hearts, praising God and having the
goodwill of all the people. And day by day the
Lord added to their number those who were being
saved. Acts 242-47
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description of the early church

• not over organised
• essentials only
• not too centralised
• Gods people getting on with it
• others liked what they saw!

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description of the early church
Personal and intimate belonging Social and
public belonging
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I have come to feel that the primary reality of
which we have to take account in seeking for a
Christian impact on public life is the Christian
congregation. How is it possible that the gospel
should be credible, that people should come to
believe that the power which has the last word in
human affairs is represented by a man hanging on
a cross? I am suggesting that the only answer,
the only hermeneutic of the gospel, is a
congregation of men and women who believe it and
live by it. Lesslie Newbigin
Hermeneutics is the study of interpretation.
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discuss

• Where have you seen real community in a church?
  Tell a story.
• What have you seen that builds strong
  relationships within the church community?
• What have you seen that hinders strong
  relationships within the church community?

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The church is the only society that exists for
the sake of those who are not its
members William Temple
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the kingdom of God is a party
Tony Campolo
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Jesus presents us with a dream . . . not just a
dream of more and better individual Christians
standing like isolated statues in a museum. It is
a dream of a community vibrant with life,
pulsating with forgiveness, loud with
celebration, fruitful in mission . . . A
substantial city whose streets bustle with life,
whose buildings echo with praise, a city aglow
with the glory of community. Brian McLaren
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discuss

• Public and social belonging
• How can we provide opportunities for public
  belonging within our churches?
• How can we provide opportunities for social
  belonging?
• How can we listen to the needs and views of
  people in our local communities?

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worship and repentance
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John 1512-17
This is my commandment, that you love one another
as I have loved you. No one has greater love than
this, to lay down ones life for ones friends.
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sung worship
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let us pray
Lord, we are honoured that you call us your
friends. For the lost, the unloved, the
marginalised and the victimised For those in
pain, sorrow grief, Have mercy, Lord
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For those on the edge, not loved and
cherished, Have mercy, Lord To those in our
midst who are lonely and isolated, Have mercy,
Lord
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• Forgive us Lord when we have squandered
  opportunities to share your love.
• We mourn Lord, for the poverty of our own hearts
  that would ration out your love.
• Have mercy, Lord

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And we cry out to you Lord, for the many who are
seeking you but take one look at us, the church
and run a mile. Forgive us Lord when we want to
settle for the status quo, to take the easy
options. Have mercy, Lord
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• This is your mission Lord, were in this
  together!

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Blessed are you King of the Universe who brings
forth bread from the earth. You have given us
your peace, and set a hunger in our hearts.
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Restore our strength. Give new energy to tired
limbs, new thought to weary minds. This is your
mission Lord, were in this together!
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breaking and sharing bread
May you be blessed in Christ as you continue to
serve Him.
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Almighty God, You call your people to proclaim
afresh in every generation the good news of Jesus
your Son. By the power of your Spirit rekindle
in us gifts of courage compassion.
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Open our eyes to see your grace at work beyond
our church buildings institutions. Help us to
work with you in building communities of faith
allowing your mission to be expressed in our
hurting world.
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May we proclaim afresh your faithfulness and
constant love in a changing and uncertain
world. For the building of your kingdom and to
the glory of your name. Through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.
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final worship

• Breathe on me, breath of God,
• Till I am wholly thine,
• Until this earthly part of me
• Glows with thy fire divine.
• Breathe on me, breath of God,
• So shall I never die,
• But live with thee the perfect life
• Of thine eternity.

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• Next week . . .
• Re-imagining church
• Part 2 Worship
• See you then!

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