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1 1 - Rediscovering mission and what that means for church Aim: to explore the mission of God as the foundation for any expression of church Quote - 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. Mission-shaped Church Stories of fresh expressions What changes in society have an impact on church? Three -ologies! Mission is Five Marks of Mission CORE RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE WHOLE COURSE Books Mission-shaped Church, Church House Publishing, 2004, ISBN: Emerging Church.Intro, Michael Moynagh, Monarch Books, 2004, ISBN: X. resourcing renewal: shaping churches for the emerging future, Martyn Atkins, Inspire, 2007, ISBN-10: Changing church for a changing world: Fresh ways of being Church in a Methodist context, Pete Pillinger and Andrew Roberts, Methodist Publishing House, ISBN Mission-shaped Spirituality: the transforming power of mission, Susan Hope, Church House Publishing, 2006 ISBN Booklets Available from the Fresh Expressions website, good bookshops or Church House Publishing Moving on in a Mission Shaped Church Starting a Fresh Expression Listening For Mission DVDs Available from the Fresh Expressions website, good bookshops or Church House Publishing expressions; the dvd 1: stories of church for a changing culture expressions: the dvd 2: changing church in every place Websites Useful for mission shaped church, fresh expressions, emerging church! - The Fresh Expressions website - The online guide and learning network from Fresh Expressions RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SESSION ONE Share the Guide - What Christian values inspire fresh expressions? The Provocative Church, Graham Tomlin, SPCK, 2004 (ISBN ) Transforming Communities, Steve Croft, Darton Longman & Todd, 2002, ISBN: Understanding Theology and Popular Culture, Gordon Lynch, Blackwell Publishing 2005 (ISBN ). The Future of the Parish System, ed. Steven Croft, CHP, 2006.

2 2 - Changing world, changing church Aim: to explore how the rise of consumerism and networking have affected our culture and how the church might respond. Culture is About consumerism Critiquing consumerism Networks Quote - A faithful Church is continually shaped by its inner dynamic: the flow of Apostolic Tradition, with Scripture as its norm The Church is, however, also shaped by the kind of world in which it finds itself. This must mean a constant receiving of the Gospel into our particular context. (Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester) I have a friend Five values of missionary church Church for my friend RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SESSION TWO Share the Guide - Fresh expressions reach out to post-modern society Changing World, Changing Church, Michael Moynagh, Monarch Books, 2001 ISBN Exiles: living missionally in a post Christian culture, Michael Frost, Hendrickson, Church after Christendom, Stuart Murray, Paternoster, Church Next, Eddie Gibbs and Ian Coffey, IVP, Page 2

3 3 - Re-imagining church: community Aim: to explore the need for fresh expressions of church to be community-focused Where do you belong? Me spirituality Acts 2: a rewrite Community within the church Quote - The only hermeneutic of the gospel is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it. The church is to be the primary agent of mission and if it does not exhibit evident community and transformed lives then any amount of evangelistic events and church projects will have limited credibility. (Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist society.) Open to community around us RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SESSION THREE Share the Guide - God works through communities and The IN dimension of church Messy Church, Lucy Moore, BRF, 2006 ISBN: ( ). The Search to belong - Rethinking intimacy, community and small groups, Joseph R. Myers 2003, Zondervan, ISBN: Invading Secular Space : Strategies for Tomorrow's Church, Martin Robinson & Dwight Smith, Monarch Books, 2003 ISBN: Exiles: living missionally in a post Christian culture, Michael Frost, Hendrickson, Page 3

4 4 - Re-imagining church: worship Aim: to explore how fresh expressions of church are re-imagining worship What is worship? Creative worship? Experiencing creative worship - my thoughts Quote - Our research work on fresh expressions of church, not least those starting to reach people furthest away from the existing church, has found this to be the single most important lesson we have learnt. Until outsiders see in the communal lives of Christians something they admire, almost nothing else can happen. It is also true for more and more Christians that in the end, quality community is what keeps them going - more than cool worship or exciting mission. (George Lings, Church Army) Changing worship Creating worship RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SESSION FOUR Share the Guide - The UP dimension of church 50 Worship Ideas for small groups, Townend and Lewis, Kingsway, 2000 ISBN: Emerging Churches, Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K Bolger, SPCK, 2006 ISBN: The Church on the Other Side: Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix, Brian McLaren, Zondervan, 2000 ISBN: Christianity Rediscovered, Vincent Donovan, Orbis, 1978 ISBN: Page 4

5 5 - Re-imagining church: leadership and discipleship Aim: to explore the type of leadership needed in fresh expressions of church and how to facilitate discipleship Valuing creativity Leadership in a fresh expression of church Quote - Do not try to call [people] back to where they were, and do not try to call them to where you are, as beautiful as it may seem to you. You must have the courage to go with them to a place that neither you nor they have ever been before. (Vincent Donovan) Surprising models Discipleship Reflections on my own discipleship Discipleship in fresh expressions RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SESSION FIVE Share the Guide - God grows church through reproduction - has provocative implications for leadership; God wants people to become disciples of Jesus Liquid Church, Pete Ward, Paternoster Press, 2002 ISBN: Developing the Leader Within You, John C Maxwell, Nelson Books Nashville, 1993 ISNBN: Get a grip on the future without losing your hold on the past, Gerard Kelly, Monarch Books, 1999 ISBN: Linked - The New Science of Networks Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Perseus Publishing, 2002 ISBN: Page 5

6 6 - Where do we go from here? Aim: to provide space for people to consider their response to this course and what they might do next Listening - a key skill Prayer and Support Listening and Following God s call Loving Service Forming Community Evangelism and Disciple- Making Evolving Worship Connection 360 degree listening The examen - for what moment am I most grateful? for what moment am I least grateful? Quote - Mission is seeing what God is doing and joining in The view from here RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SESSION SIX Share the Guide - Is God calling me to be involved? Mission Shaped Questions, ed. Steven Croft, CHP, 2008 mission-shaped and rural: growing churches in the countryside, Sally Gaze, Church House Pub., 2006 ISBN A churchless faith: faith s journey beyond the churches, Alan Jamieson, SPCK, 2002 ISBN Church Planting Past Present and Future, George Lings and Scott Murray, Grove Evangelism 61, 2003 ISBN: Page 6

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