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Re-imagining Mission for a spiritual Age

Re-imagining Mission for a spiritual Age. Listening to the Spirit of the Age. To the Mission Context. To the essence of the Christian Inheritance . Double listening (Mission-Shaped Church). Two ears one mouth Use accordingly in mission

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Re-imagining Mission for a spiritual Age

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  1. Re-imagining Mission for a spiritual Age Listening to the Spirit of the Age

  2. To the Mission Context • To the essence of the Christian Inheritance Double listening (Mission-Shaped Church) Two ears one mouth Use accordingly in mission Failure to enter the other persons world leaves us like the tourists who keep speaking louder in their own language

  3. Post-modernity?Modernity toPostmodernity I tell my story I choose my beliefs truth as fact truth as experience I buy my identity The logic of consumerism

  4. Post-Christendom? Church attendance 2005 76% of New Christians Come from 26% De-Churched finding faith today 1992 65% Non Churched This section of the population is older and decreasing over time 26% De Churched 9% monthly

  5. Post-Christendom? Not just about church attendance • Grace Davie, - Believing without belonging and vicarious faith • But changing belief • Fading of occasional office • Decline in Christian identity • Stages in the decline of Christendom not a new way for it to persist

  6. Belief in God

  7. Infant Baptism C of E 2007

  8. Church Weddings 2007

  9. Christian Affiliation UK

  10. Christian Affiliation 2001

  11. Christian Affiliation

  12. Not belonging to any religion

  13. Builders (born 20s+30s) in 2005

  14. Boomers (born 40s+50s) in 2005

  15. Gen-Xers (born 60s+70s) in 2005

  16. Gen-Yers (born 80s+90s) in 2015?

  17. Post- Secularism? • Post-modernity - multi-faith in a post-secular age • Post-modern move from truth as fact to truth as experience - From universal truth to true for me may be different to true for you. • Rejection of objectivity for subjectivity • Personal belief re-enters the public square • Any and every belief …. All are equally unprovable • All of this much to the annoyance of Richard Dawkins……. and Christians? • Religion once more on the agenda but any religion with no way back to Christendom …..indeed is Christianity disadvantaged compared to the alternatives?

  18. The Media • Growth in TV shows on the supernatural, spiritual and paranormal – • Fiction … supernatural, sea of souls, Buffy, demons, Hex, charmed, Sabrina the teenage witch, apparitions, treu blood, the vampire diaries • ‘fact’…..haunted homes, most haunted, healers, Britain's psychic challenge, documentaries on mediums, Pagans, teenage witches etc • Move from ‘Scooby Do’ approach where the ghosts are found not to exist to an approach where the balance is to believe in them • Replacement of the priest with the medium, investigator or demon hunter.

  19. 55% saw a patterning of events – up 90% 38% felt God’s presence – up 41% 37% had answered prayer – up 48% 29% felt sacred in nature – up 81% 25% the presence of the dead – up 39% ‘Spiritual’ experience in 2000 Vs 1987 1987 48% report a spiritual experience - 2000 risen to 76% 25% the presence of evil – up 108% But what are they experiencing?

  20. Belief in God or higher power

  21. Children to be raised with belief in God

  22. Believe in the soul

  23. Believe in an afterlife

  24. Believe in restless spirits

  25. Believe in Karma

  26. Experience of fortune telling, Tarot, astrology, psychics, palmists

  27. I have more faith in astrology than organised religion

  28. Believe in magic

  29. Australian Gen Y – like Britain? Rationalist humanist Non believing 14% Moral relativism, pick ‘n’ mix, truth in all religions but not just one, something ‘out there’ occult and paranormal experienced BUT open rather than committed or seeing as important Includes neo pagans and followers or frequent participants in the esoteric/occult growing shrinking ‘new spiritual’ 23% Religious 17%

  30. Japan Britain

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  42. Consumer Christianity?

  43. Consumer Christianity? • God the cosmic therapist? • Cruise liner – or Battleship? John Wimber • Church shopping? • Looking for what I get out of it • Looking for the one that does things my way • Buying religious product? • Occasional offices • Rosaries • Retreats • Spiritual direction

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