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Title: Mission Shaped Church


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Mission Shaped Church
Theology for a
Some of the working group
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Ch 5 Key theological ideas - menu
  • Church is shaped by who God is community in
    mission
  • Church is the fruit and sign of Gods mission.
  • Its DNA is missionary community. p 84-86
  • Christ and culture
  • His Birth, Cross and Resurrection underpin both
    Inculturation and being counter-cultural p 86-90
  • Inculturation is serious engagement
  • between the seeds of both the gospel and the
    church, with the soil of a culture. p 90-91.
  • Church has definitive marks
  • It is also designed to reproduce p 93 96
  • One Holy Catholic and Apostolic pp 96-99

NB These ideas outcrop throughout MSC in
practical stories, methodology and analogy
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Theological principle ONE
  • Church is shaped by who God is
  • The Trinity are community-in-mission
  • Church is the fruit of Gods mission. p 85 but..
  • Church is not agent that is the Holy Spirit
  • but a sign of Gods mission
  • Churchs DNA is missionary community.

Mission comes from the Father, through the Son in
the power of the Spirit MSC p85
MSC pp 84-86
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Mission-shaped Church DNA will ..
  • Be Trinitarian
  • Understand Church primarily as community-in-missio
    n
  • Be relational
  • Rather than see Church as structure, history or
    external practices
  • Be Incarnational like Jesus
  • Laying aside our status and preferences Phil 2
  • Be disciplers, like Jesus
  • Growing communities of those who follow him and
    draw others to him
  • Be Transformational, like the work of the Trinity
  • Looking beyond themselves to a kingdom centred,
    counter-cultural affect upon society

MSC pp81-82 This an adapted order 1 5 2 4 3 to
put ontology before function
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Trust the DNA .
  • You cant know
  • the results first !

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A hint from history
From church as centre, to SONs mission as centre
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Mission-shaped Church
  • But a divine process
  • Mission shaped the divine Missioner Jesus
  • Incarnation describes this
  • Philippians ch2 sings its praises
  • John 20.21 hands the pattern on

cf MSC p88
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Let Copernicus talk to the church ..
  • Is it just accident that the church now finds
    itself at the margins ?

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Theological principle TWO
  • Christs patterns
  • His Birth, Cross and Resurrection underpin both
    Inculturation and being counter-cultural p 86-90
  • There is here an inherent process from
    Christological example

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Incarnation OR Counter-Cultural ?
Resurrection and Ascension
Lordship underpins conflicting engagement
Kingdom Signs
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Theological principle THREE
  • Inculturation is serious engagement
  • It is not imposed by an individual from above or
    outside, but from the community and below
  • Inculturation and Contextualisation should be
    treated as friends
  • Both gospel and church, must be sown
  • entering the soil of a culture.

MSC pp 90-91.
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Definition result
  • Church planting is the 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

Mission-shaped Church p 32-33
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Theological principle FOUR
  • Church has definitive marks
  • It is designed to reproduce p 93 96
  • One Holy Catholic and Apostolic pp 96-99
  • The Chicago Lambeth Quadrilateral pp 100
  • Scripture, Creeds, 2 Sacraments, Episcopacy

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OHCA
Enduring Marks
Four linked Journeys
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The forgotten dimension ?
  • Thanks for
  • Communion UP
  • Community - IN
  • Commission OUT
  • May I add
  • Communicate, Continuity or Connectedness
    OF

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Church with Mission in the DNA will ..
  • Be Trinitarian
  • Focussing on God the Trinity, sharing their
    mission
  • Be relational
  • Following the Trinity who are community-in-mission
  • Be Incarnational like Jesus
  • Laying aside their own status and preferences
    Phil 2
  • Be disciplers, like Jesus
  • Growing communities of those following him
  • Be Transformational like the economic Trinity
  • Looking beyond themselves to a kingdom centred,
    counter-cultural affect upon society

MSC pp81-82 This an adapted order 1 5 2 4 3 to
put ontology before function
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Foundations sometimes matter
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