is new life possible? fresh expressions and missional church in sa?
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Is new life possible? Fresh Expressions and missional Church in SA?. Hinge period, cultural shift or crisis?. Changing world and attitudes. Mobility and networks. Consumerism work.buy.consume.die. Post ’94 Born Frees. Struggling to reconcile?. Christ and Culture. Synopsis of 5 challenges. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Is new life possible? Fresh Expressions and missional
Church in SA?
Hinge period, cultural shift or crisis?
Changing world and attitudes
Mobility and networks
Consumerismwork.buy.consume.die
Post ’94 Born Frees
Struggling to reconcile?
Christ and Culture
Synopsis of 5 challenges• Secularisation• Pluralisation• Consumerism• Post apartheid• Post colonial
A Fresh Expression is a form of church for our changing culture
established primarily for the benefit of people who are
not yet members of any church.
It will come into being through principles of listening, service, incarnational mission and making disciples.
It will have the potential to become a mature expression of church shaped by the gospel and the enduring marks of the
church and for its cultural context.
Listening for mission
It starts with...
1. Double Listening (to the context/community and to the spirit of God)
2. Service (not a service)3. It is essentially incarnational as opposed to
attractional or engaged (see Models)4. It seeks to make disciples
3 Models
both-and both-andcontinue to grow and develop the church as it iscontinue to grow and develop the church as it is
establish fresh expressions of churchestablish fresh expressions of church
5 Marks of Mission Lambeth Conference 1988
1. Missional church is focused on God as Trinity
2. Missional church is incarnational3. Missional church is transformational4. Missional church makes disciples5. Missional church is relational
Dispelling 5 myths1. Fresh
Expressions are a replacement for inherited and traditional ways of doing church.
Dispelling 5 myths2. Fresh
Expressions are only appropriate where the church is in terminal decline.
Dispelling 5 myths3. Fresh
Expressions are merely a tool for getting people back into “real” church.
Dispelling 5 myths4. Fresh Expressions
are only for white, middle class suburban settings. The Black churches are growing and don’t need any new ideas.
Dispelling 5 myths5. Fresh
Expressions are not Anglican! Doing things in different ways causes disunity.
Listening for mission
Tubestation, Polzeath
Zac’s place
Somewhere else