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