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Apostolic Ministry in the post-Postmodern CollapseAlternative Futures?
Viv Grigg, hesitant voiceMarch 2013
Liquid Modernity - Baumer
Successful…in the Wrong Direction?• Called and successful as a local
pastor? (Well as much as one can
be!!)
• Hungry to move to the Apostolic?
Beyond pastoring how do I get to be
what I am meant to be?
• Aware that the culture is leaving the
church behind?
• Perplexed. Is God doing something
different to what I am doing?
Beginnings of burnout?
Theologically disjunct?
• Jesus commanded us to make disciples?o He did this relationally?
o He lived outside the synagogues, going to people?
o He died outside the walls?
o The disciples went and reproduced a lifestyle and value system – multiplication
of grups
o The Holy Spirit kept touching people
• Christendom: I am trapped in church systems?o Developing buildings and programs?
o Running worship services where people are invited to come
o The people are good people but culture bound
o The Holy Spirit comes but rarely
o Growth is by addition into pastoral care groups
Take a grain of wheat and a chess board
• Put one grain on one square two on the next, four on the next…
• How much wheat by the time you get to the 64th.?
• Alternativelyo Put 100 grains on the first square
o Put 100 on the next
o How much by the time you
get to the 64th
You have 64 more years of ministry. Which approach will you use?
God’s method is men Dawson Trotman – birthing the Navigator movements, now many millions
• Without resources or buildings and few salaries
• In power of Spirit
• Preaching outside the walls
• With clear alternative value system and community life
Apprenticeship• Skills of
preaching, theology
Suffering, rejection• Healing in a
safe place, anointing
Pastoring/Preaching• Failure or
burnout and restart
Apostolic• Start small• Train in an
alternative value system
• Lifelong fruitfulness
• Mobility• Multiplicat
n
Personal Expansion of Gifts Timeline
Modern Period
Postmod-ernism
Collapsed
Postmod-ernism
Loss of a Civilization
Christendom Extended• Rural
Confusion Experim-entation• urban
Alternative Communities• Mega-city
Response to the Loss
Change in Church Culture
RURAL IN CITY URBAN POST-MODERN
CHRISTENDOM SECURLARISM, 20% MAX IN CHURCH
CHURCH IS CENTRE OF COMMUNITY
CHURCH IS ONE ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY
UNITY OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
MULTIETHNIC
MODERNIST SENSE OF WHAT IS RIGHT
MULTIPLEX TRUTHS
LOKING BACKWARDS LOOKING FORWARDS
Will you lead in the future?
Alternative Structure
Pastor as preacher Pastor is recruiter/teambuilder
Community of Care Multiplying small communities with values systems
Maintenance of Buildings Holy Spirit/Word/Start a cell per month/Multiply in 9 months
Monthly larger gatherings in school halls
Add a few per year Multiplying revival movments
Leadership in Traditional Model
Pastor
Pressure to fulfil Church Growth Pastors
role Pastoral
small groups
BurnoutBuilds status Quo
Salaried Staff
Preacher
Apostolic Leadership
Apostle
Team Builder
Start an evangelistic
cell each month
Leader of breakthro
ughs
Creates an
alternative value system
Trains Lay staff
Preacherbecomes trainer
Self-supportin
g till mutipicati
on
Embracing the Future
• Remain within declining 2% per year of institurional
Christendom
Or
• Create seeds of Multiplying revival movement out to
10,000
Radical Rejection of Past• Step out of
Security• Step out of
preaching as calling
Relocate to City• Walk with
other pioneeers
• Mike Breen network?
• New City?
Live by Faith• Build
community around your values
• Suport self till multiolcaiton comes
Cross Cultural Barriers• Start small• Train in an
alternative value system
• New values, vision, structure
• Mobility• Multiplicat
n
Learning Curve: Embracing the Future
PreachingLay it aside for now inside the walls
Go to the dispossessedOutside the Walls
To thousands after you have multiplied the movement
Readings
• Breen, Mike (2011). Building a discipling culture : how to release a missional
movement by discipling people like Jesus did. Pawleys Island, SC: 3DM
Publishing. ISBN 0-9846643-0-0.
• Hirsch, Alan; Catchim, Tim; Breen, Mike (2012). The permanent revolution :
apostolic imagination and practice for the 21st century church. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-470-90774-6.
• Hirsch, A. (2006). The Forgotten Ways : Reactivating the Missional Church. The
Forgotten Ways. Grand Rapids, Mich., Brazos Press: 295.
• Tom Beaudoin. (1998) Virtual Faith: the Irreverent Spiritual Quest of
Generation X
• Kimball, Dan. (2007). They Like Jesus but not the Church. Grand rapids., MI, Zondervan.
• Dear, Michael. J. (2000). The Postmodern Urban Condition. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers.