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Creating Church for the 21 st Century

Creating Church for the 21 st Century. Missional Map making. Ancient paths Compass points Journey maps. Is this a science or art ?. “To improvise in ways that surprise and delight yet ring true with the past.” Prof David Ford.

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Creating Church for the 21 st Century

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  1. Creating Church for the 21st Century

  2. Missional Map making • Ancient paths • Compass points • Journey maps Is this a science or art ?

  3. “To improvise in ways that surprise and delight yet ring true with the past.” Prof David Ford

  4. Imagining • Evaluating & starting • Envisioning • Nurturing & developing

  5. Imagining “ Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge is limited.” Albert Einstein

  6. “We require radically different & as yet unimagined to relate the Good News to the pastoral challenges of the world .” Gerald Arbuckle

  7. “We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

  8. Double Listening an environment in which the Spirit given presence of God’s future may emerge among the people of God.

  9. Think without a bannister Hannah Arendt The future is not just a logical unfolding of the past.

  10. Three pieces of advice about imagination • Forget everything you know • Remember everything you know • Re-arrange everything you know

  11. Three places to start • What is the Spirit doing ? • How is our environment changing ? • What is our core identity?

  12. ‘not leaving the tradition but driving to it’s heart’ Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church

  13. Creativity more than efficiency Relationality more than calculability Flexibility more than predictability Proactivity more than control

  14. Traveller, there is no road, the road is made by walking

  15. Questions for discussion? • What is feeding my imagination? • If you knew anything you did • would succeed what would you do?

  16. Evaluating & starting

  17. Love Relate Create

  18. G.E.T.O.N. Getting together Exploring possibilities Thinking ahead Organising support Nurturing community 6

  19. Two ways of seeing entreprenurship

  20. The Five Habits of Highly Innovative Leaders

  21. Questioning Observing Networking Experimenting Associational Thinking /

  22. Who is the mission for? • Who is the mission by? • Who is the mission with?

  23. WHO IS THE MISSION FOR ?

  24. unchurched/dechurched • neighbourhood/network • cultural context • progression/pioneering

  25. Shaped by the constants of the faith and the context of the mission. How is faith experienced and embodied now?

  26. Envisioning

  27. Clarifying how the future will be different from the past and how you can make this a reality.

  28. Mission Focus in the light of our core identity Vision/mission- who/what are we called to be & do Values- what is held in high esteem, prized, of worth

  29. You are responsible for this!! • Repeat it regularly- vision leaks • Celebrate it at every opportunity • Embrace it personally • Be careful of the new • Listen carefully to requests, stories & complaints

  30. YOU CAN’T PREDICT THE OUTCOME Control to chaos Answers to questions Certainty to risk

  31. Questions for discussion? • What particularly struck you • about how to get going?

  32. Nurturing & developing

  33. Disciple making • Going • Baptizing • Teaching

  34. ‘ As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully. 2 Timothy 4 v5.

  35. What is community? common interests, frequent interaction and identification Not aggregate of people but the quality of communication among them.

  36. Membership • Influence • Integration and fulfilment of needs • Shared emotional connection • “Sense of community is a feeling that members have of • belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and • to the group and a shared faith that members needs will be met • through their commitment to be together.” • McMillan and Chavis.

  37. Relationship of community & mission Telling the gospel creates community but community is the main factor in telling the gospel

  38. “ transformational communities for the wider community, rather than existing purely for themselves or being inculturated into an (for them) alien church culture.” Graham Cray.

  39. Longer term issues • resources • leadership • mission • community • autonomy and accountability

  40. Comments Questions Insights/examples

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