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Fred Batterton

Explore the balance between mission-focused structures and social engagement in churches. Are buildings enhancing or hindering the mission?

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Fred Batterton

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  1. Part 4: Is Our Building a Help or a Hindrance? Fred Batterton

  2. Mission  An important assignment given to a person or group of people. Hindrance A thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone.

  3. Building

  4. Mission • Love God • Love your neighbour • Make disciples • Teach • Specific local / national / international

  5. Mission First

  6. History • Built to last • Built as icons • Built for then • Conservation - a modern enterprise • Stifling the Mission ?

  7. Fortress or welcome?

  8. Moving on

  9. Separation • Early church were borrowers of space • Multi-function with community pre-1700 • Then seperate community halls built • Church lost community focus • Private members religious club image • Enter only if prepared to say the creed

  10. Social places

  11. Social places

  12. Retail thresholds • Successful retail minimises the threshold • Seeing in first • Is what you see what you get? • Lifestyle benefits of buying

  13. Moment of Truth • Principle in retail • Customer measures promises against experience • Applies as they enter the premises • Updated every few seconds • Gap between claim and delivery?

  14. Wise stewards

  15. Next time: What are our opportunities?

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