A fresh expression

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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.
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Different Mission Fields
Regular attenders at least monthly(10)
Fringe- less than monthly(10)
Non Churched(40)
Open de-churched(20)
Closed dis-churched(20)
MSC p 37-40
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2007 Tear Fund survey of 7000 adults in contact
or not with church
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TOGETHER TO GODS FUTURE

• do not try to call them back to where they
  were, and do not try to call them to where you
  are, beautiful as that place may seem to you. You
  must have the courage to go with them to a place
  that neither you nor they have been before.
• Vincent Donovan

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church planting is a process by which a seed of
the life and message of Jesus, embodied by a
community of Christians is immersed for mission
reasons in a particular cultural or geographic
context. The intended consequence is that it
roots there, coming to life as a new
indigenous body of Christian disciples well
suited to continue in mission. MSC report
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http//davemale.typepad.com/churchunplugged/