Taking our cue from JESUS

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Taking our cue fromJESUS
His Strategy
His core DNA
His disciple-making culture
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Jesuss core DNA3 relationships in balance
His core DNA

• UP
• Luke 612
• IN
• Luke 613-16
• OUT
• Luke 617-19

How balanced are we ?
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His core DNA
We share over 97 of our DNA with Gorillas
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Jesuss core DNA3 relationships in balance
His core DNA

• UP
• Luke 612
• IN
• Luke 613-16
• OUT
• Luke 617-19

How balanced are we ?
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Taking our cue fromJESUS
His Strategy
His core DNA
His disciple-making culture
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Our Current Strategy

• Before thinking about Jesus strategy lets think
  clearly about our own.
• Summary
• Come to us, do our thing, our way

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Our Current Strategy

• Overwhelmingly attractional and event orientated
• Key Components
• Sundays (B)
• Small Groups (S)
• act of Service (T) (serve the organisation)

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Come to us, to do our thing, our way
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Our Current Strategy

• Overwhelmingly attractional and event orientated
• Other Components
• Puzzling Questions
• Other church groupings

Come to us, to do our thing, our way
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Our Current Strategy

• Overwhelmingly attractional and event orientated
• Shafts of light
• Tiddlywinks/Toy Library
• Community Engagement

Come to us, to do our thing, our way
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CURRENT context

• SMALL GROUPS
• Come to us
• Join our thing

• SUNDAYS
• Come to us
• Join our thing

OUTREACH - Attract people to our thing
SERVICE - Help us do our thing
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CURRENT context

• SMALL GROUPS
• Come to us
• Join our thing

• SUNDAYS
• Come to us
• Join our thing

Some observations about this strategy - its
not very effective - its very labour intensive
- puts disproportionate pressure on key roles
OUTREACH - Attract people to our thing
SERVICE - Help us do our thing
Making disciples
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Taking our cue fromJESUS
His Strategy
His core DNA
His disciple-making culture
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Jesuss Strategy(Principles)
His Strategy

• Incarnation not attraction
• John 114
• Relationships not programmes
• Mark 314
• Apprenticeship (learning through doing)
• Mark 116
• Life together not events together
• Mark 827
• Meeting felt needs first
• Mark 28-10

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Jesuss Strategy(Principles)
His Strategy

• Incarnation not attraction
• John 114
• Relationships not programmes
• Mark 314
• Apprenticeship (learning through doing)
• Mark 116
• Life together not events together
• Mark 827
• Meeting felt needs first
• Mark 28-10

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Jesuss whole approach
Burlington .

• Connecting with people where they are
• Connecting with those who come to us
• Staying with people where they are
• Staying with those who come to us
• Meeting their needs where they are
• Meeting the needs we tell them they have
• Proclaiming the kingdom where they are
• Proclaim the kingdom where we are

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DIFFERENT context
Going to them not calling them to us
Incarnational not attractional
Proclaiming in their context not ours
Engaging with within community not calling
people out Neighbourhood networks
Making disciples
Meeting their needs first not imposing our own
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Taking our cue fromJESUS
His Strategy
His core DNA
His disciple-making culture
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Jesus modelled
support challenge
His disciple-making culture

• support or challenge?
• Matthew 1613-25
• Mark 313-15 cf. Mark 117

Relational proximity required!

• His leadership was
• High Support
• High Challenge

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Taking our cue fromJESUS
His Strategy
His core DNA
His disciple-making culture
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• To reach
• those NO-ONE ELSE
• is reaching
• we need to do what
• no-one else
• is doing.

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Taking our cue fromJESUS
His Strategy
His core DNA
His disciple-making culture
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So ......

• We need a new balance
• We need a different strategy
• We need to create a different environment

How?
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