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Explore innovative approaches to mission and evangelism through eight principles, challenging traditional perspectives with a fresh outlook.

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  1. http://davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged/ @CofEPioneering www.cofepioneer.org

  2. Encouraging and enabling pioneering mission Eight possible principles 21st November 2016

  3. 1. There is no return address

  4. Seeing in a New Way “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust Know how to see the infinite

  5. Playing Away

  6. In working with young people . . . do not try to call them back to where they were, and do not try to call them to where you are, as beautiful as that place might seem to you. You must have the courage to go with them to a place that neither you nor they have ever been before. Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai (1978)

  7. 2. You have to get the order right

  8. Mission shaped Prayer Love Relate Create Prayer The danger of starting with Church rather than mission

  9. 3. Evangelism is at the heart, core or centre of mission.

  10. The E word

  11. Christine had been raised Anglican.. Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: They were like men in rain coats who might or might not be flashers. You would be going along with them in a normal way, and then there would could be a swift movement and you would look down to find the coat wide open & nothing on under it. Scarlet Ibisby Margaret Atwood.

  12. We do not believe, however, that the central dimension of evangelism as calling people to faith and a new life can ever be relinquished. I have called evangelism the "heart" of mission. If you cut the heart out of a body, that body becomes a corpse. With evangelism cut out, mission dies; it ceases to be mission. David Bosch, Evangelism: Theological currents & Cross Currents Today. International Bulletin of Missionary Research, July 1987

  13. The big picture Community context Word Event

  14. ‘ How can we proclaim God’s love and justice to a generation living in an individualized, secularised and material world?’ Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes A New WCC Affirmation on Mission and Evangelism. 2012

  15. 4. Leaders need to take the lead…..

  16. ‘Transformed leaders have a clear conviction that God can and will work through their congregation to change lives and that their congregation of people can be used by God to help change the world. Such vision begins with the clear vision of the evangelising community and what that community might look like in its particular setting and circumstances

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

  18. Envision • Encourage • Equip (not tell) • Example • Expectancy

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

  20. What kind of missionary leaders are required for these times ?

  21. 5. Vision is crucial (and leaders hold it )

  22. I am suggesting that the only answer is a congregation of women and men who believe the gospel and live by it. Leslie Newbiggin.

  23. Do I(we)really believe this ?

  24. Can God use me (us)?

  25. 6. Find and feed imagination and innovation

  26. 7. Evangelism is the overflow of discipleship and discipleship always happens in the context of intentional mission

  27. Seeing God Seeing myself and others Seeing community Seeing creation and society What kind of people are we called to be? What kind of community is capable of raising people like that?

  28. Discipleship as dance How do you dance? • instruction • imitation • participation • model with others • Many ways to dance -variety

  29. Discipleship is …………… • knowledge • experiences • relationships • practices • suffering • service • time Formal/informal/accidental

  30. 8. Church is multi level

  31. “The problem is we have too many churches. The solution is we need a whole lot more.”

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

  33. Church in every day life • communal • visible • intentional

  34. “These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also.” Acts 17 ;7

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