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Fresh Expressions of Church?

Fresh Expressions of Church?. IMAGINE …. Question?. If you had to describe the essence of what a church is in short phrase what would it be?. Bible Metaphors. Body 1 Cor 12:13 Household Eph 3:19 Flock Acts 20:28 Field 1 Cor 3:9 Temple Eph 2:21 Eklessia= called out ones.

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Fresh Expressions of Church?

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  1. Fresh Expressions of Church?

  2. IMAGINE….

  3. Question? If you had to describe the essence of what a church is in short phrase what would it be?

  4. Bible Metaphors • Body 1 Cor 12:13 • Household Eph 3:19 • Flock Acts 20:28 • Field 1 Cor 3:9 • Temple Eph 2:21 • Eklessia= called out ones

  5. Machine or Organism? Are we alive?

  6. Heptagon Nutrition Movement Excretion Respiration MRS GREN Sensitivity Reproduction Growth

  7. Movement Plants move in response to the sun. We should be moving in response to the son

  8. Respiration We need to be breathing in God’s Spirit to release energy with in the church

  9. Sensitivity Are we willing to change in response to our surroundings, culture, people’s needs, etc.

  10. Growth Growth happens in seasons. What limits growth in the church?

  11. Reproduction Have we forgotten God’s first command to man? “Be fruitful and increase in number.” (Gen 1:28)

  12. Excretion Excretion is the removal of substances which were good but all nutrition from them has been used.

  13. Nutrition Do you have a balanced Diet?

  14. Fresh Expressions • "Fresh expressions are new and different ways of being church in a changing culture." • A fresh expression of church is not normally seen just as an additional activity or simply a stepping stone for people to Sunday services but as something with the potential to be or become church for those who take part."

  15. Elements • A fresh expression is a form of church for our changing culture established primarily for the benefit of people who are not yet members of any church. • It will come into being through principles of listening, service, incarnational mission and making disciples. • It will have the potential to become a mature expression of church shaped by the gospel and the enduring marks of the church and for its cultural context.

  16. MY STORY

  17. Cultural context Discuss how culture in Britain has changed over the last 50 years. If you are younger compare your Grandparents culture to your own.

  18. Some of those changes include • Mobility • Family life – divorce • Employment (esp. increase in women) • Free time • Media, and Internet • Communication • Fragmented Society • Church attendance

  19. Changes in thinking Word based  Image based Learning through  Learning through thinking experience exploration for  exploration for wider truth my truth Rational as worship  Heart as worship Head & Individualistic  Feeling & Shared Is it right  Does it work

  20. Postmodern p Hay & Hunt 2002Frequency of report of religious or spiritual experience inBritain for years 1987 and 2000

  21. Things have changed So what are we going to do about?

  22. Fresh Expressions a solution? • There is no one solution • Many cultures/sub cultures calls for many different types of churches. • People for the most part will not come to us, we have to go to them. • Gives us an opportunity to use our God-given creativity

  23. What is a Fresh Expression? Alternative worship communities Base Ecclesial Communities Café Church Cell Church Churches arising out of community initiatives Multiple and midweek congregations Network focused churches Schools based church Seeker church Traditional church plants New monastic communities Youth Congregation/church

  24. Examples

  25. How do you start? Who are you trying to reach? What is there culture? Where are they already? What do you enjoy doing? Where are the points of connection? What is God already doing? Are there people already interested?

  26. What Culture • Get into groups if possible with either people who live in town or in a village. • Discuss what the culture of the town/village is. • Who lives there (age, class, employment, how long,) • How do they relate to each other and where • What points of connection are there • What do people believe

  27. Where to start? Worship Community Mission

  28. Question and (maybe) answer session!

  29. Resource • Mission Shaped Church, Cray et al Church house Publishing • Emergingchurch.intro M. Moynagh, Monarch • Post-Christendom S. Murray, Paternoster • Church After Christendom, S. Murray, Paternoster. • Messy Church, L Moore, Barnabas • The Passionate Church, M. Breen, NexGen • Emerging Churches, E. Gibbs R Bolger, SPCK

  30. Resources Cont. • Expressions: The DVD – 1and 2: N. IvisonChurch House Publishing, 2006 • www.freshexpressions.org.uk • A New Kind of Christian (trilogy), B. Mclaren, • Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell, Zondervan • Planting Churches, Stuart Murray, Paternoster • Evaluating Fresh Expressions, Croft et al. Canterbury Press • Emerging Evangelism, J. Finney, DLT • Irresistible Revolution, S. Claibourne, Zondervan • The Prodigal Project, M. Riddell, SPCK

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