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What I am asking Part 3. What I am hearing What I am learning. Some of my Questions. How do we become Monday to Saturday Christians?. Dualistic Christianity. God interacts with his people. We interact with our world. WORLD. GOD. CHURCH. Secular . Sacred . Missional Christianity.
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What I am askingPart 3 What I am hearing What I am learning
Some of my Questions How do we become Monday to Saturday Christians?
Dualistic Christianity God interacts with his people We interact with our world WORLD GOD CHURCH Secular Sacred
Missional Christianity CHURCH GOD WORLD Missional engagement Incarnational Church
Question What do I mean when I say “Incarnational Church?”
How can we reach people in our neighbourhoods who are just not going to come into a church service? KEY INCARNATION Questions How do we find out what God is already up to in our neighbourhood? What kind of church would the Holy Spirit want to shape in this neighbourhood?
INCARNATION MINDSET “The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.” Archbishop William Temple
INCARNATION MINDSET “If it is the nature of God’s love to undertake sacrifice, it must also be the nature of his church. The Church is most true to itself when it gives itself up, in the current form, to be reformed among those who do not know God’s Son. In each new context the Church must die to live.” Cray, ‘Mission Shaped Church’
Some of my Questions How do we feel about Risk and Adventure as a Church?
Risk Creativity Adventure Outside our comfort zones Make you stronger It could kill you Find Jesus in new ways Let’s see what God can do through us …
“A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.” J. Oswald Sanders
“A ship moored in the harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are made for?” John A. Shed
Some of my Questions What does it mean to be a faithful Christian in West Auckland Suburbia? Consumerism Individualism
Some of my Questions How do we develop a ‘cathedral mentality’? “I meant by that as a church we behave in the present in view of the long-term development of our life together.”