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SESSION 1. Bob & Mary Hopkins + Sally Gaze. New ways of being Church for the sake of the gospel. Intro to Fresh Expressions. Anglican Church Planting Initiatives. Where do we/you come from?. [email protected]. Where do you come from?. New ways of being Church. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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New ways of being Church for the sake of the gospel
Bob & Mary Hopkins + Sally Gaze
Intro to Fresh Expressions
SESSION 1
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Anglica
nChurch
Planting
Initiativ
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Where do we/you come from?
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Where do you come from?
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New ways of being Church
Our themes will be:
• UK experience
• Some mission theology
• Your emerging story
• Practical insights
• Lessons of ‘how to’
• Lots of stories
• Q & A and discussion
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Theological foundations
EFS website:
A collection of sources and quotations giving background in missiology and ecclesiology for Fresh Expression of Church
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Church always renewing
Ecclesia semper refrormanda est:
• Svenska Kyrkan Lutheran – born in reformation
• EFS Born in renewal of mission
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part one
New mission movement in the UK
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• Sold over 25,000 copies
• Explored the changing context
• Stories of what God had
initiated
• Term “Fresh Expressions of
Church”
• Examined missionary practice
• Developed missionary
ecclesiology
• Made radical recommendations
Mission shaping church v. church shaping mission
Mission shaped Church Report
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So many types of freshX
• school-based• multiple/
midweek• network
church• seeker• café church• cell/BEC/
cluster• new monastic• alt. Worship• man church!• surfers church
• workplace church• youth
congregations• under 5s and
parents• student church• community
initiative• church plants• skateboarders
church• church of
vulnerable• rural freshX• ladies church!
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Celebrating and building on what is mission-shaped in traditional forms of church… …and finding new,
flexible, appropriate ways to proclaim
the Gospel afresh to those
who do not relate to
traditional ways
Key theme: ‘mixed economy’
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Key theme: ‘mixed economy’
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BOTH RIVERECONOMY
ANDMIXEDLAKE
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Vitally important fact!
In the mixed economy, all fresh expressions of church are part of the diocese and parish system.
98% of the 500 fxc’s came under the existing pastor and church council.
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definition?
What is a ‘fresh expression of church’?
An evolving answer!
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Vad är fresh expression?• Fresh expression (ett nytt sätt att vara
kyrka) är en form av kyrka för vår föränderliga kultur, etablerad främst för människor som ännu inte är med i någon kyrka.
– Det växer fram genom lyssnande, tjänande, konkret vardagsmission och lärjungaträning
– Det har förutsättningar att bli en gudstjänstfirande gemenskap som är formad av evangeliet och kyrkans kännetecken och till för det aktuella sammanhanget.
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definition?
What are the marks of a ‘fresh expression
of church’?
five defining characteristics!
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5 kännetecken på ett nytt sätt att vara kyrka
• Missionellt till nytta för de som inte redan är med i kyrkan.
• Kontextuellt försöker passa in i målgruppens sammanhang
• Jesusfokuserat ord och handling talar om Jesus
• Formande tränar till lärjungaskap• Kyrkoförankrat är kopplat till den
befintliga kyrkan och har för avsikt att fullt ut bli kyrka.
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No. of fxc in 10 dioceses
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Some Fresh Expressions stats
• In one diocese 30% of congregations are fxc’s - the average is 15%
• Over 1,000 Anglican & 1,000 Methodist fxc’s
• Fxc’s are being planted in all social contexts
• Over half the fxc’s are lay led
• The average size of a fresh expression is 40
• The greatest growth has been in last 3 years
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freshX – practical examples
1. freshX among young families together!
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Welcome with games; activities and crafts together!
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Preparing food & eating. Bible dramas, learning, praying and worshipping together!
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A Messy movement! Over 1000 examples Regional “Messy Fiestas”
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part two
Our changing mission context
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Mission responses
Visualisations of the changing context and responses:
• George Lings, Encounters on the Edge
• Robert Warren, Being Human, Being Church
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Church in the valley…
• baptism• education• marriage• festivals• Sunday• sickness• crisis• bereavement• death
The mission task: From door,to font / baptistery,to communion table / altar, out to the world
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A few still drawn to church doors by the culture
The mission task: Go to where people are and make disciples there
…to the side of a hill
But current culture draws many away from, not towards church
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Context - Secular pluralism
Church
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Five shifts in society
Changing Sundays
Changing relationships
Changing cultures
Less faith knowledge
Religion to spirituality
Church at different times
Church for different networks
Church in different cultures
Church for beginners
Church for disconnected explorers
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What’s up for change?
• day and time• who leads• buildings• style of meetings• group size• priority of worship• basis of
membership or commitment
• parish and place
Practitioners making it up as they go along
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Incarnational mission
“The word became flesh and moved into the neighbourhood…
John 1, The Message
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mission stories
It is happening in SwedenIntro to Fresh Expressions
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stories
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Discuss in 2’s & 3’s
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• Identify someone in your neighbourhood or network who has no real contact with church
• Do you have any meaningful contact with them?
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The mission journey
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Worship Service Community, Discipleship, Mission
Traditional Church Plants
The normal journey
We need a change of MINDSET
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listening and following God’s call
Starting a fresh expression
loving& serving
formingcommunity
evangelismand
discipleship
evolvingworship
living connection between the sent and the senders
prayer – by the sent and the senders
it’s all about listening and following God’s call
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Compassion - our motivation
God is Love
God’s love for the world
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Listening for mission
The context is everything
• But there are more areas to be investigated
• And the key question is “where is God at work?”
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Double Listening
• Listening in two directions– to the context– to the inherited tradition
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• discerning God through all these• know your context; gospel and
church
360° listening
TRADITION
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mission stories
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9 mins – Fika Church
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freshX – live case study
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Small villageMessy church in 2014In Sweden!
Kerstin Oderhem, in the village of Rydaholm
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Discuss in 2’s & 3’s
What encourages or inspires you?
What ideas are there that could apply in your situation?
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part four
Different mission methods
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3 Mission methods
Adaptation of Hirsch & Frost
• Attractional method• Engaged method• Emerging method
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Attractional method
come
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Engaged method
go and then come
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Emerging method
go and then stay
And see what
arises
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The Spectrum
Large Projectsfunded Posts
“BMO”
Locally basedlay led project
shift to “church”
New Communities(wider than parish)
Some funding
Reimaginingexisting Church
for mission
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mission stories
Examples from England
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Wesley Playhouse
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More stories to illustrate
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freshX – practical examples
2. freshX in café culture
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Cafe culture – freshX
The Journey of 6 types of café church
From:• Create a café event and invite folkTo:• Invade café culture
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Costa café free with staff & discount coffee
Cafe church – seeker-style
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Table discussions; quizzes; challenges meditations & a message
Cafe church – seeker-style
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Cafe network – a franchise
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freshX – practical examples
3. freshX in youth culture
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Youth freshX
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freshX – practical examples
4. New church among the elderly
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• Ravenshead Estate – many retired people
• Mission to elderly by church and non-church folk
• Church arising out of social engagement
• Day centre; Lunch club; Good Neighbours
“Molly’s Church”
freshX for the elderly
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“Molly’s Church”
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Ravenshead
Community
Project
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• An “Alpha Course” for the elderly• A cell group grew from “Alphas”• A Sunday Tea event... completes
“Church”
“Molly’s Church”
freshX for the elderly
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Ravenshead
Community
Project
Cell Group Members
Sunday Afternoon Tea
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Discuss in 2’s & 3’s
What challenges will you take home to your congregation?
What may have to stop? Start? or change?
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Your Questions
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The key question ...
What is church?
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Four relationshipsholy
worshipup
apostolicmission
out
onecommunity
in
catholicconnexion
of
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Toblerone churchUp
UpUp
Up
Up
UpUp
Up
In
Out
Out
Out
Out
Out
OutOut
Out
Of
Connected in spaceConnected through
time and eternity
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• Up - fresh expressions of worship• OUT - Fresh expressions of
mission• IN - Fresh expressions of
community• OF - Fresh expressions of
partnership
Not all 4 relationships/dimensions
OK - fresh but not Church
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Intro to Session 2
• Sally Gaze • Rural ‘Cell
Church’
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Sally Gaze – Cell Church
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• Sally Gaze • Rural ‘Cell
Church’
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Intro to Session 2 – Groups
Your context and dividing up:
• Sally will explain• Getting into groups
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Resources (see display)
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