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Fishing nets or safety nets

Fishing nets or safety nets. 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

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Fishing nets or safety nets

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  1. Fishing nets or safety nets

  2. http://davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged/

  3. 2007 Tear Fund survey of 7000 adults in contact or not with church

  4. “ 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.”

  5. “ this research helps us to understand that the further people are from church, (in terms of churchgoing) the less likely they are to attend in the future. Mission opportunities are very different when to step over the church threshold is an unknown experience…..”

  6. 7 principles for remodelling church

  7. 1 Public worship probably isn’t the best starting point

  8. Prayer and Support Loving Service Forming Community Evangelism and Disciple- Making Evolving Public Worship Listening and Following God’s call Connection

  9. “ The foundation of being Christian is being community centred around Jesus. Public worship is the consequence of this reality, not its creator.” George Lings

  10. 2 Modification of the existing is not enough

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

  12. The ends of the earth Samaria The eccentric effects… 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

  13. 3 Mission shapes the church

  14. “The day of the churched culture is over. The day of the mission field has come.” Kennon L Callahan Effective Church Leadership

  15. Playing Away

  16. ‘The reality is that mainstream culture no longer brings people to the church door. We can no longer assume that we can automatically reproduce ourselves, because the pool of people who regard church as relevant or important is decreasing with every generation’ Mission shaped church report p11

  17. “ it is not the church of God which has a mission but the God of mission who has a church.” Tim Dearborn

  18. “ we understood mission one way and organised life to accomplish it. We have awakened to find out the mission moved on us. To keep focusing on mission, we have to turn the furniture around and face a different direction. We may even have to move into another room.” Loren Mead. The Once and Future Church

  19. ‘Mission is often described as if it were a planned extension of an old building. But it fact it has usually been more like an unexpected explosion.’ John V Taylor

  20. 4 This might change US

  21. ‘Are there structures and patterns which let that basic event of encounter happen again and again? Because if not , the church has become something very different from where it started; it’s become a community which says once there was an encounter with Jesus and we like to remember that. We have to ask much more radically , how do we structure a community in which it goes on being possible ,even likely ,that people will meet Jesus and in meeting Jesus will want more people to meet Jesus.’

  22. 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

  23. TOGETHER TO GOD’S FUTURE • ‘…do not try to call them back to where they were, and 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

  24. 5 Welcome the three eccentrics

  25. The 3 eccentrics • Who are the Philips? • A Dangerous Deacon? • Allow space for the unknowns • Discover Cornelius • who evangelizes who • Pray for Pauls • Eccentrics will do it differently

  26. 6 The challenge of discipleship

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

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

  29. Simple in its nature • Relational in its emphasis • Transformational in its outcomes

  30. 7 The Pattern of Jesus Life

  31. Incarnation- a world to enter • Cross- a world to counter • Resurrection- a world to anticipate

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