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3. What’s your experience of the mixed economy?

5. ‘In a situation of rapid discontinuous change, leaders must understand and develop skills & competencies to lead congregations & denominations in a context that is missional rather than pastoral. A congregation must become a place where members learn to function like cross cultural missionaries rather than a gathering place where people come to receive religious goods and services.’ Alan Roxburgh, The Missional Leader, p13. The church is Gods gift to the world.

6. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

7. 2004 30,000 copies sold Unanimous approval at General Synod Discussed and implemented in Dioceses Influence in UK Ecumenical Worldwide influence

8. 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.

9. The Mixed Economy

10. both-and continue to grow and develop the church as it is establish fresh expressions of church

11. This is not new but fresh

12. 2007 Tear Fund survey of 7000 adults in contact or not with church

13. “ this majority (66%) presents a major challenge to churches. Most of them are unreceptive and closed to attending church; churchgoing is simply not on their agenda.” Churchgoing in the UK. A research report from Tearfund. April 2007

14. Headlines On average 10% of church attendance 15% of church communities. In 7 out of 10 dioceses it reversed the decline in average weekly church attendance 20 different models of FX & across socio-economic groups. 75% people outside church, 40% unchurched, 35% dechurched 5820 team sent out, 20,863 now attending. 250% growth rate. ‘ Nothing else in the CofE has this level of missional impact and adding further ecclesial communities.’ 40% started in 2010-2012

15. 20 types of fxc- most common are Messy Churches, Café Churches and child focused church. The average size is 44 and starting team size is 3-12. 91% are new ecclesial groups Large teams and transplants are 1.2%- team 50+ 7.4%-team 20-49 83% parish, 11% deanery and 6% Diocese. 45% progression and 61% pioneer.

16. 33% have communion services 10% Messy Churches 60% weekly gatherings 33% have baptisms 62% of fxc have grown or maintained 10% have died. 48% ordained – 66% male 52% lay- 66% female https://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/research

17. Six basic principles

18. 1 There is no return address

19. ‘ The defining aspect of this change of epoch is that things are no longer in their place…… we cannot simply wait for what we are experiencing to pass under the illusion that things will return to being how they were before.’ Pope Francis.

20. Half the picture Judea Samaria Ends of the Earth Jerusalem

21. The eccentric effects… The ends of the earth Samaria Judea The centre and the Acts story shift Samaria is not a return ticket story moves from a focus on Peter to Paul the Church goes west church is done differently among Gentiles

22. In working with young people . . . do not try to call them back to where they were, and do not try to call them to where you are, as beautiful as that place might seem to you. You must have the courage to go with them to a place that neither you nor they have ever been before. Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai (1978)

23. Vincent Donovan This is not only ‘Good missionary advice’, ‘a beautiful description of the unpredictable process of evangelization, a process leading to that new place where none of us has ever been before.’ Christianity Rediscovered (1982)

24. 2 Public worship services probably are not the best starting point

26. Prayer Love Relate Create Prayer

27. 3 Who is church for?

28. Church as a place where certain things take place to a body of people sent on a mission ‘ Either we are defined by mission , or we reduce the scope of the gospel and the mandate of the church.’ p6

29. "The church is not the sender but the one sent. Its mission (its "being sent") is not secondary to its being; the church exists in being sent and in building up itself for the sake of its mission.“ David Bosch, Transforming Mission.

30. The ship is safest when its in the port. But that’s not what ships were made for.

31. Playing Away

32. 4 Discipleship rather than attendance

33. ‘ We would intend to make disciples and let converts happen rather than intending to make converts and let disciples happen.’ The Divine Conspiracy, p334.

34. How we see God • How we see ourselves and others • How we see our community • How we see creation and society

35. “If not part of a mutually discipling community the culture will disciple you.” Graham Cray

37. What kind of people are we called to be? What kind of community is capable of raising people like that?

38. Evangelism as the overflow • of discipleship. • Discipleship operates in the • context of mission, making • disciples who make disciples.

39. 5 Church is multi level

40. “every expression of the church is, in it’s own way, another worked example of what the encounter with Christ looks like in the life of a particular community.”

41. “Each of us promises in the Anglican formularies to proclaim the faith fresh in every generation by the grace of the Living God at work within us. To do this well in our own day involves a willingness to go to every part of our changing culture, and often, to work with the Spirit to form new communities of word and sacrament in fresh and imaginative ways.”

42. “ the theological doctrine of the church cannot be simply expressed in abstract terms about the churches timeless nature. It will have to provide points of departure for reforming the church, for giving it a more authentic form. Faithfulness and the fresh start are not antitheses in the history of the Spirit.” Jurgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit

43. Church as four sets of relationships. up of out in Moynagh, Church for Every Context p 106.

44. Visible • Communal • Purposeful

45. ‘not leaving the tradition but driving to it’s heart’ Gerald Arbuckle, Refounding the Church

46. 6 This might change US

47. Dying to live “ I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12; 23-6

48. What might this mean for the structures and shape of your church?

49. Archegos How was Jesus pioneering in his practice?