Fresh Expressions a definition

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Changing Church for a changing world
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Fresh Expressions a definition
Fresh Expressions is a form of church for our
changing culture, established primarily for the
benefit of people who are not yet members of any
church.
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• 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.

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• Church for the culture it seeks to reach

• Primarily for non churched

• Listening, service, incarnational mission and
  making disciples

• Having the potential to become a mature
  expression of Church

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Some Fresh Expression Values
Not taking God to the people, but finding out
what God is doing with the people and joining in.

• Vincent Donovan
• Do not call the people back to where they were
  (they were never there).
• Do not call the people to where you are, as
  beautiful as it may seem to you.
• But travel with them to a place neither of you
  have been before.

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Community building
Belonging before believing or behaving
Building deep and honest relationships
Democratic leadership
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Worship
Experience as well as head knowledge
Variety and choice in connecting with God
Leader getting out of the way
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Discipling
Sharing faith not providing it learning from
one another
Allowing for peoples learning styles
Faith relating to all of life
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Changing Church for a changing world