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+Graham Cray. Making Disciples in FX. Fresh Expressions. 1. Discipleship connects to the source. the heart of discipleship is obedience to Jesus the motivation for discipleship is a vision of Jesus and his Kingdom part of God’s work is to make us like Jesus. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Fresh Expressions 1
Making Disciples in FX
+Graham Cray
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Discipleship connects to the source
• the heart of discipleship is obedience to Jesus
• the motivation for discipleship is a vision of Jesus and his Kingdom
• part of God’s work is to make us like Jesus
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Discipleship is no after-thought
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A process of discernment
loving and serving
buildingcommunity
exploringdiscipleship
churchtakingshape
underpinned by prayer, ongoing listening and relationship with the wider church
listeningdo itagain
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DNA of fresh expressions
Everything that will grow is present at the beginning
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DNA of fresh expressions
• listening• serving• forming community• evangelism and discipleship• church taking shape
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Start as you mean to go on
Only what is in the seed can grow
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Intentional
“make the fresh expression itself about discipleship from beginning to end.
“aim to provide an experience of Christian community for those with little contact.
“allow for the long journey people go on as they come from initial attention to openness to respond to the gospel.
Paul Moore
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Context
• despite a dominant Western culture, the key to planting a fresh expression is local context
• what forces shape a locality, whether neighbourhood or network or a combination of the two?
• disciple-making is a process of inculturation, involving the reading of a local culture
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Start as you mean to go on!
• build sacrifice and service into the culture of the fresh expression from the beginning
• don’t create an environment so comfortable that it gives no hint of the cost of discipleship or the call to serve
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Set an example
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Sunday Sanctuary
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Moving forward
• there is no need for all to move at the same pace
• provide regular opportunities to go deeper
• maintain the missional focus
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Starting where people are
Catechumenate communities at the start:
•belonging before believing•knowing very little•expecting to participate
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Staging posts - Sorted
• contact work• club night• praise service• peer-led discipleship
groups
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Staging posts - Moot
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Staging posts - Moot
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Continuing the journey 19
Stages marked in worship
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A learning environment
• ministry of the word• creating a learning
culture• multisensory
learning• participative• no unchallengable
experts in an internet age
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Examples
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How is disciple-making practiced?
Dioceses of Liverpool and Canterbury
•one to one•courses•small groups•serving teams
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One to one
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Courses
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The right course for the context
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Small groups
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Small groups
• ‘one anothering’• mutual support• Honesty• never purely pastoral• or just to study the Bible• mission-focused
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A way of life worthy of the gospel
“Christian community is not primarily about togetherness… togetherness happens but only as a by-product of the main project of trying to be faithful to Jesus.Hauerwas and Willimon
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Serving teams
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Church for the Kingdom
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A rule or rhythm of life?
• disciplines of prayer and community
• a rhythm of life• community to
sustain discipleship
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