1. The Life & Work of a Missional Leader
Developing a Contextual Church
Focused Session #1 & #4

2. Introduction
Recap principles from Collective #2
3. Secular Pluralism
Church
4. What it IS!

Contextual

5. Indigenous 6. Inculturationincarnation
7. Its NOT 1 or 2

Attractional Church

8. Engaged Church 9. Emerging ChurchYES
Hirsch & Frost adapted by Hopkins
10. Eg. Contextual Engagement

Church of the School

11. Surfers Church 12. Church of Urban poor (VivGrigg) 13. Church of Retirement Residential Home 14. Church of families & kids (Messy Church) 15. Church of Handicapped 16. Church in Caf culture 17. Romany/Gypsy Church 18. Iranian/Afghan asylum churchAll sorts of fresh expressions of church
19. The 2 Words in turn
Developing a
Contextual
Church
20. A.Contextual
A clear Mission Focus
Know that culture & context
Discover Gospel connections there
21. 1. A clear mission Focus
Jesus knew who he was called to & prioritised everything to that
22. Mission Effectiveness Keys
1.The Chosen Mission Field
clearly identified
then it can be researched and understood
2.The Mission Force (leader & team)
size suitable to the chosen field
committed to engage with the chosen field
3.The Engagement Strategy
appropriate to the mission field
achievable by the mission force
These 3 should match up
23. Mission Match-making
Mission Field
Mission Strategy
Mission Force
The three parties
24. Mission Match-making
Mission Field
Mission Strategy
Mission Force
Partial Connection
25. Mission Match-making
Mission Marriage
Each fully connected = coherence
This can then result in incarnational mission
26. In Groups of 2 or 3
So what is your context:

Do you have a clearly defined context?

27. What is it? Can you describe it? 28. Do you/your team prioritize relating to it?Time: 5 mins
29. Evangelistic or Missional
How do your teams relationships work?

Teams relationships random or focused?

30. Engaging with existing networked relationships or having to create them? 31. Geographic mission fields make this easier to recognise