Title: The Shape of things to come
1The Shape of things to come
- Loanhead
- Saturday 23 February 2013
2Were not in Kansas Anymore
3Post-Christendom
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- Post Christendom is the culture that emerges as
the Christian faith loses coherence within a
society that has been definitively shaped by the
Christian story and as the institutions that
have been developed to express Christian
convictions decline in influence. - Post-Christendom Church and Mission in a
Strange New World, Stuart Murray, p 19 -
4Change of Age?Phil Hanlon, Professor of Public
Health, Glasgow
Structural Economic collapse unsustainable models Cultural Anxiety, depression, addictions
Biological Obesity Epidemic Inner Life Fragmented Identity (fatherlessness)
5Travel Hints for the Journey
- Three horizons look beyond the first horizon to
the third horizon, but travel towards the second
horizon. - We are good at migration and adaptation.
- We need a paradigm shift a change of
consciousness ( new eyes rather than new ideas) - We need to introduce a second curve of
innovation.
6Second Curve Innovation
7Church in Bereavement
- Denial
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Yearning
- Acceptance
- Moving the investments
8The Transition Zone
- Jeremiah uprooting and planting (Ch 1)
- The Temple clinging to false security (Ch 7)
- The Potter offering a second chance (Ch 18)
- The Baskets of Figs seeing exile as a positive
- I regard as good the exiles of
Judah. (Ch 24)
9The Letter to the Exiles (Ch 29)
- This is Gods doing that we are where we are -
those I carried into exile (4) - This is Gods place where we are to share Gods
blessing - seek the peace and prosperity of the
city (7) - This is Gods timescale to wait where we are
seventy years (10) - This is Gods plan that we are to seek God again
I know the plans I have for you (11)
10Pause Point
- Where do you see Hanlons symptoms of society in
your community? - Where is your church on the journey of transition?
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12Web 2.0
USER CONSUMER
PRODUCER
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13Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about
writing Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is
about communities Web 1.0 was about
client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer Web
1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about
blogs Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about
wireless Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is
about sharing Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0
is about Google Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0
is about broadband
http//joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-
web-10/
14Web 2.0
USER A PERSON A PERSON lives in GROUPS
COMMUNITIES
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15Church 2.0
EARTHED SPIRITUALITY AUTHENTIC
COMMUNITY MISSIONAL PRACTICALITY
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16Coracle
- Young Adults (20-40)
- Couple as Leaders
- Journey in, out and together
- Faith and Action Group
- Mums and God
- Two Halves Group
- Male Spirituality
17Raven Community
- Night Club Chaplaincy
- Exploring Church for Club Culture
- Project to community
- Whats in a name?
18Post-modern Church
- EH1 - cafe connector
- Urban soul chill out or dance
- Soulspace clubs or flats
- Round table talk truth, trust and risk
- Key Words
- Liminality and Communitas
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20Clay Community Church
- Urban Expression incarnational communit
- Four couples no salary, no house
- Intentional community life
- Join in with what God is doing
- Anonymous musicians Jesus is the song
21Pause Point
- If these illustrate some of the marks of church
2.0 - Which of these marks do you recognise in your
church? - Which ones stand out as the greatest challenge
for you?
22Church The Long View
- Biblical, Historical, Contemporary Models of
Church
23Acts of the Holy Spirit
- Story of Migration and Adaptation
- The story of the continual conversion of the
church from Jerusalem to Samaria - The story of a Jewish plant adapting to Gentile
soil from Jerusalem to Antioch - The story of a minority report on God at work in
the world from Pentecost to prison cells
24The First Communities
- Starting points synagogue or prayer points
- Homes the dominant setting (40-50 people?)
- Meals together
- One-another-ness
- Multi-voiced worship
- Male and female leadership
- Plural leadership
- Messy church! Messy lives!
- Underground church the catacombs and the
catechesis (3 years Lent Easter)
25Morphing Church
- Constantine public recognition, public
buildings - Desert Fathers and Mothers solitude and
monasteries - Celtic communities doodlers and dreamers,
poets and pilgrims, heart, home and hub - Roman model - Cathedrals, dioceses and parishes
- Monastic Communities
- Settled Church and Orders or Missionary movements
(St Francis or Moravians or The Salvation Army) - Modalities and Sodalities (Ralph Winter)
- Institution and Charismatic (Howard Snyder)
26Beyond Congregation?
- Common as they are in several religious
traditions, congregations have never dominated
the totality of the worlds religious
organisations.. The congregation is not as
inevitable as church members might assume. - Congregations James Hopewell p 12
- We are beginning to understand that the anomaly
was the long historical period of performative
congregations. - The Missional Leader Alan Roxburgh and Fred
Romanuk p 100
27Leadership Mirrors the Culture
- Elders Jewish communities
- Priests Greek and Roman temples
- Pope and Cardinals Roman Emperor and Senate
- Theologians and Apologists Rhetoricians and
Philosophers - Leaders of New Orders knights and soldiers
- Episcopacy king and court
- Presbyterianism rise of democracy
- Charismatic leadership entrepreneurial business
culture - Institutional leadership managerial models
- Cultural relics resonance and distortion
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31Pointers?
- Edinburgh Central Baptist Missional Communities
- St Andrews Boness Social Outreach Programmes
and Sanctuary First - Glasgow Whiteinch Urban Monastery
- St Andrews (Holy) Trinity Minster Model
- Garioch Baptist Church Church in the home
- Musselburgh The Lighthouse
322000 years young
- Christianity is young and if it lasts for as long
as humanity is expected to last on this planet,
it has futures of at least 2000 million years
ahead of it. - We are a primitive church. All our theology is
immature. All our organisations are experimental.
Almost all our spiritualityhas been at its best
adolescent. - The psychology of youth has always been the
character of this faith. The theologians call
this eschatological. - David Edwards
33Church in Transition
- The Church is essentially en route, on a journey,
a pilgrimage. A Church which pitches its tents
without looking out constantly for new horizons,
which does not continually strike camp, is being
untrue to its calling.....It is essentially an
interim church, a church in transition, and
therefore not a church of fear, but of
expectation and hope a church which is directed
towards the consummation of the world by God... - Hans Kung
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35Pause Point
- How does the long view of the churchs story
help us face the future? - What are you taking away from this session?