Transcript Fresh expressions and children

Bob & Mary Hopkins
+ Sally Gaze
SESSION 1
New ways of being Church
for the sake of the gospel
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Where do we/you
come from?
Anglican
Church
Planting
Initiatives
[email protected]
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Where do you
come from?
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New ways of being Church
Fresh Expressions of 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
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Church always renewing
Ecclesia semper refrormanda est:
• Svenska Kyrkan
Lutheran – born in reformation
• EFS
Born in renewal of mission
“Returning to the founding dream”
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New mission
movement in the UK
part one
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Mission shaped Church Report
• 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
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So many types of freshX
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school-based
multiple/midweek
network church
seeker
café church
cell/BEC/cluster
new monastic
alt. Worship
man church!
surfers church
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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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Key theme: ‘mixed economy’
Celebrating and building on what is missionshaped 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
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Key theme: ‘mixed economy’
MIXED
LAKE
BOTH
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ECONOMY
AND
RIVER
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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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Our changing
mission context
part two
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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…
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baptism
education
marriage
festivals
Sunday
sickness
crisis
bereavement
death
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The mission task:
From door,
to font / baptistery,
to communion table /
altar, out to the world
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…to the side of a hill
A few still drawn to
church doors by the
culture
The mission task:
Go to where people are
and make disciples
there
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But current culture
draws many away
from, not towards
church
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Context - Secular pluralism
Engage –
sit & listen
Church
Form new
church?
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Five shifts in society
Changing Sundays
Church at different
times
Changing relationships Church for different
networks
Changing cultures
Church in different
cultures
Less faith knowledge Church for beginners
Religion to spirituality Church for disconnected
explorers
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What’s up for change?
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day and time
who leads
buildings
style of meetings
group size
priority of worship
basis of membership
or commitment
• parish and place
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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
3 minute – intro
+ 5 mini stories
It is happening in Sweden
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Discuss in 2’s & 3’s
• 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
part three
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The normal journey
Worship Service
Community, Discipleship, Mission
Traditional Church Plants
We need a change of MINDSET
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Starting a fresh expression
prayer – by the sent and the senders
evangelism
loving listening
forming
evolving
and following
and God’s call
& serving community
worship
discipleship
it’s all about listening and following God’s call
living connection between the sent and the senders
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Compassion - our motivation
God is Love
God’s love for the world
2 Cor 5:14
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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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360° listening
TRADITION
• discerning God through all these
• know your context; gospel and church
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mission stories
9 mins – Fika
Church
It is happening in Sweden
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freshX – live case study
Kerstin Oderhem, in the village of Rydaholm
Small village
Messy church
in 2014
In Sweden!
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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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Different mission
methods
part four
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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
Reimagining
Locally based New Communities Large Projects
existing Church lay led project (wider than parish) funded Posts
“BMO”
Some funding
for mission
shift to “church”
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mission stories
Wesley
Playhouse
Examples from England
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More stories
to illustrate
part five
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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 folk
To:
• Invade café culture
• www.acpi.org.uk
• www.freshexpressions.org.uk/guide
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Cafe church – seeker-style
Costa café free
with staff &
discount coffee
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Cafe church – seeker-style
Table discussions;
quizzes; challenges
meditations & a
message
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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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freshX for the elderly
“Molly’s Church”
• Ravenshead Estate – many retired people
• Mission to elderly by church and nonchurch folk
• Church arising out of social engagement
• Day centre; Lunch club; Good Neighbours
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“Molly’s Church”
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Ravenshead
Community
Project
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freshX for the elderly
“Molly’s Church”
• An “Alpha Course” for the elderly
• A cell group grew from “Alphas”
• A Sunday Tea event... completes “Church”
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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?
part six
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Four relationships
holy
worship
up
apostolic
mission
out
one
community
in
catholic
connexion
of
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Toblerone church
Up
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Connected in space
Connected through
time and eternity
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OK - fresh but not Church
Not all 4 relationships/dimensions
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Up - fresh expressions of worship
OUT - Fresh expressions of mission
IN - Fresh expressions of community
OF - Fresh expressions of partnership
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Intro to Session 2
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• Rural ‘Cell Church’
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• 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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