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Being the Church where we live, today

Being the Church where we live, today. Examining the context of Church today and looking at how we might reshape our own church with the resources we have in our own location. The aims . To understand the connections and disconnections between our churches and our communities

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Being the Church where we live, today

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  1. Being the Church where we live, today Examining the context of Church today and looking at how we might reshape our own church with the resources we have in our own location.

  2. The aims • To understand the connections and disconnections between our churches and our communities • To place our local stories within the bigger stories of changing culture and changing church • To identify responses individually and together

  3. The Scottish Church Census • 4144 Churches • 49 denominations • 570,000 attending • 11.2% of population • Ave age 47 (C/S 51) • 2020 age 56 • Loss of over/under 45 • Few leaders under 35 • 6.6% of under 25’s

  4. Hurricane of Change Generating Hope, Jimmy Long Deeper Cultural Changes Generational Changes

  5. Core Value of modern society = Choice For example: Shopping Centre Mobile phone Remote Control World Wide Web ...... Quotes the Churches response should be EPIC Experiential Participatory Image-based Communal Living in Post-Modernity

  6. Living in Post-Christendom “Post Christendom is the culture that emerges as the Christian faith loses coherence within a society that has been definitively shaped by the Christian story; and as the institutions that have been developed to express Christian convictions decline in influence.” Post-Christendom – Church and Mission in a Strange New World, Stuart Murray, p 19 He continues: “A recent estimate is that 1 million Christians no longer belong to churches and this is the fastest growing part of the Christian community” Church after Christendom, S Murray, p 45

  7. Marks of Modern LivingJourneying Out: Ann Morisy Work • Regularity • Predictability • Decency • Comfort and security • Privacy • Pretence • Story-thin existence Church Neighbourhood Leisure Home

  8. Suburban Angst • “Anxiety is the organising principle for our lives, and particularly for suburbanites. I have my life under control….I watch my cholestorol level…get my teeth checked…I am cautious about who I let into my house…I have saved for my pension…I am anxious because I know that something…..will surely come and and overwhelm me.” [Journeying Out p 99]

  9. The Deep Tradition Our deep tradition is to be open to new ways of being the church for people who are not yet God’s people. Lets invite the questions, as we approach 2020, what do we have to do to maintain this deep tradition and how do we reshape ourselves?

  10. What will we look like in 2020? Teens Children Community Partnerships Parents Leaders Look Ten Years Ahead

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