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Making Disciples in FX

+Graham Cray. Making Disciples in FX. Fresh Expressions. 1. Discipleship connects to the source. the heart of discipleship is obedience to Jesus the motivation for discipleship is a vision of Jesus and his Kingdom part of God’s work is to make us like Jesus.

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Making Disciples in FX

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  1. +Graham Cray Making Disciples in FX Fresh Expressions 1

  2. Discipleship connects to the source • the heart of discipleship is obedience to Jesus • the motivation for discipleship is a vision of Jesus and his Kingdom • part of God’s work is to make us like Jesus

  3. Discipleship is no after-thought

  4. A process of discernment do it again listening church taking shape exploring discipleship loving and serving building community underpinned by prayer, ongoing listening and relationship with the wider church

  5. DNA of fresh expressions • Everything that will grow is present at the beginning

  6. DNA of fresh expressions • listening • serving • forming community • evangelism and discipleship • church taking shape

  7. Start as you mean to go on • Only what is in the seed can grow

  8. Intentional • make the fresh expression itself about discipleship from beginning to end. • aim to provide an experience of Christian community for those with little contact. • allow for the long journey people go on as they come from initial attention to openness to respond to the gospel. • Paul Moore

  9. Context • despite a dominant Western culture, the key to planting a fresh expression is local context • what forces shape a locality, whether neighbourhood or network or a combination of the two? • disciple-making is a process of inculturation, involving the reading of a local culture

  10. Start as you mean to go on! • build sacrifice and service into the culture of the fresh expression from the beginning • don’t create an environment so comfortable that it gives no hint of the cost of discipleship or the call to serve

  11. Set an example

  12. Sunday Sanctuary

  13. Moving forward • there is no need for all to move at the same pace • provide regular opportunities to go deeper • maintain the missional focus

  14. Starting where people are • Catechumenate communities at the start: • belonging before believing • knowing very little • expecting to participate

  15. Staging posts - Sorted • contact work • club night • praise service • peer-led discipleship groups

  16. Staging posts - Moot

  17. Staging posts - Moot

  18. Stages marked in worship Continuing the journey 19

  19. A learning environment • ministry of the word • creating a learning culture • multisensory learning • participative • no unchallengable experts in an internet age

  20. Examples

  21. How is disciple-making practiced? • Dioceses of Liverpool and Canterbury • one to one • courses • small groups • serving teams

  22. One to one

  23. Courses

  24. The right course for the context

  25. Small groups

  26. Small groups • ‘one anothering’ • mutual support • Honesty • never purely pastoral • or just to study the Bible • mission-focused

  27. A way of life worthy of the gospel • Christian community is not primarily about togetherness… togetherness happens but only as a by-product of the main project of trying to be faithful to Jesus. • Hauerwas and Willimon

  28. Serving teams

  29. Church for the Kingdom

  30. A rule or rhythm of life? • disciplines of prayer and community • a rhythm of life • community to sustain discipleship

  31. Fresh Expressions 32

  32. +Graham Cray Making Disciples in FX Fresh Expressions 33

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