Transcript Spring Harvest 2013 Fishing Nets or Safety Nets

Fishing nets
or safety nets
Ephesians 2:
1: 17
8 ––10
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Jesus
With
In
Christ
all
came
is wisdom
our
weand
have
peace;
proclaimed
and
also
ininsight,
his
obtained
flesh
peace
God
he
anhas
has
toGentiles
you
made
made
who
. . .Christ
remember
that
at
one
time
you
known
inheritance,
were
far
tooff
usand
having
the
peace
mystery
been
to
of
destined
those
his will,
who
according
according
were
by
birth,
called
“the
uncircumcision”
bydown
those
both
groups
into
one
and
has
broken
to
near;
his
for
good
purpose
through
pleasure
of. him
that
both
who
heaccomplishes
ofset
usforth
have
in
access
all
who
are
called
“the
. . .has
that
thethe
dividing
wall
. . circumcision”
between
us.
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Christ,
things
in
one
according
Spirit
as aat
plan
tolaw
the
for
to
Father.
his
thewithout
counsel
fullness
and
of time,
will,
to
you
were
that
time
Christ,
being
abolished
the
with
its
commandments
gather
so
up
we,allwho
things
were
inhe
him,
the
first
things
to
inIsrael,
heaven
our
aliens
from
the
commonwealth
ofset
andthat
ordinances,
that
might
create
in and
and
hope
things
onone
Christ,
earth.
might
live for
praise
of his
strangers
toon
the
covenants
of
promise,
having
himself
new
humanity
in the
place
of the
glory.
no
hope
without
Godand
in the
world.
two,
thusand
making
peace,
might
reconcile
both groups to God in one body through
the cross.
Vincent Donovan
Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai (1978)
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)
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)
Jürgen Moltmann
What we have to learn . . . is not that the
church “has” a mission, but the very
reverse: that the mission of Christ
creates its own church.
Mission does not come from the church;
it is from mission and in the light of
mission that the church has to be
understood.
The Church in the Power of the Spirit
(1977), p.10.
http://davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged/
2007 Tear Fund survey of 7000 adults in contact or not with church
“ 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.”
Percentage of people
with childhood experience of the church
60
50
%
40
Age in 2005
30
20
10
0
60-year-olds
40-year-olds
20-year-olds
“The day of the churched culture
is over. The day of the mission
field has come.”
Kennon L Callahan
Effective Church Leadership
Five principles for remodelling church
1
Public worship probably isn’t
the best starting point
•Love
•Relate
•Create
2
There is no return address
Half the picture
Jerusalem
Judea
Samaria
Ends of the Earth
The eccentric effects…
Samaria
The ends
of the earth
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
3
Who is this for?
Playing Away
“ it is not the church of God
which has a mission
but the God of mission
who has a church.”
Tim Dearborn
4
The relationship
between evangelism
and discipleship
‘ We would intend to make disciples
and let converts happen rather than
intending to make converts
and let disciples happen.’
The Divine Conspiracy, p334.
5
This might change US
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
• ‘…do
not try to call them
to where
TOGETHER
TOback
GOD’S
they were, andFUTURE
do not try to call them to
where you are, beautiful as that place may
seem to you. You must have the courage
to go with them to a place that neither you
nor they have been before.’
• Vincent Donovan
“The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
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