developing a contextual church
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Ecclesia National Gathering 2010 The Life and Work of a Missional Leader Focused Session Bob and Mary HopkinsTRANSCRIPT
- 1. The Life & Work of a Missional Leader
Developing a Contextual Church
Focused Session #1 & #4
2. Introduction
Recap principles from Collective #2
3. Secular Pluralism
Church
4. What it IS!
- Contextual
5. Indigenous 6. Inculturationincarnation
7. Its NOT 1 or 2
- Attractional Church
8. Engaged Church 9. Emerging ChurchYES
Hirsch & Frost adapted by Hopkins
10. Eg. Contextual Engagement
- Church of the School
11. Surfers Church 12. Church of Urban poor (VivGrigg) 13.
Church of Retirement Residential Home 14. Church of families &
kids (Messy Church) 15. Church of Handicapped 16. Church in Caf
culture 17. Romany/Gypsy Church 18. Iranian/Afghan asylum churchAll
sorts of fresh expressions of church
19. The 2 Words in turn
Developing a
Contextual
Church
20. A.Contextual
A clear Mission Focus
Know that culture & context
Discover Gospel connections there
21. 1. A clear mission Focus
Jesus knew who he was called to & prioritised everything to
that
22. Mission Effectiveness Keys
1.The Chosen Mission Field
clearly identified
then it can be researched and understood
2.The Mission Force (leader & team)
size suitable to the chosen field
committed to engage with the chosen field
3.The Engagement Strategy
appropriate to the mission field
achievable by the mission force
These 3 should match up
23. Mission Match-making
Mission Field
Mission Strategy
Mission Force
The three parties
24. Mission Match-making
Mission Field
Mission Strategy
Mission Force
Partial Connection
25. Mission Match-making
Mission Marriage
Each fully connected = coherence
This can then result in incarnational mission
26. In Groups of 2 or 3
So what is your context:
- Do you have a clearly defined context?
27. What is it? Can you describe it? 28. Do you/your team
prioritize relating to it?Time: 5 mins
29. Evangelistic or Missional
How do your teams relationships work?
- Teams relationships random or focused?
30. Engaging with existing networked relationships or having to create them? 31. Geographic mission fields make this easier to recognise