The Normal Radical

Welcome to the Normal Radical 4th September 2016 The Normal Radical

No monkey business If you were to ask one of the monkeys ‘why did you beat up the other monkey?’ He would say… ‘I don’t know, that’s just what we do around here’. How do we make sure we own the reasons behind the values and don’t just copy the expression – thus become part of a system?

Watch the film online here “I don’t know…It’s just what we do around here”

Welcome to the Normal Radical The adventure continues… Called to live radically different. Our values are as radical today as when we first discovered them Presentations: Revise, revisit and rediscover the values God has called us to build upon Workshops: Refresh our expression Development Groups: Test new expressions

Avoid ‘Drag and Drop’

Avoid ‘Drag and Drop’

Definition Values = guiding principles. e.g. Serving Expression = application of the value e.g. Set up team, stewarding, children’s work

Something for everyone Active Application Historic al Time Inactive Recent Knowledge Limited Extensive

Something for everyone Don’t really know the values & no experience of applying values (Orange/pink) Active Application Don’t know what the values are and haven’t tried putting any of values into practice Historic al Time Inactive Recent Knowledge Limited Extensive

Something for everyone Knowledge of values but no application of the values (blue/red) Active Application Can talk confidently about the values but can’t point to examples in own life Historic al Time Inactive Recent Knowledge Limited Extensive

Something for everyone Limited knowledge but lots of recent and historical stories of applying values (green/purple) Active Application Love ‘doing’ the values but can’t give reason why or give biblical basis for what we do You’re the monkey! Historic al Time Inactive Recent Knowledge Limited Extensive

Something for everyone Knowledge of values and application of values but no recent stories (yellow) Active Application Can quote chapter and verse for all the values and can tell you stories about what they look like but they tend to have a little dust on them. They have lost their excitement in the application – it has become boring. Normal but no longer radical… Historic al Time Inactive Recent Knowledge Limited Extensive

Something for everyone Knowledge of value and application of value with recent stories (grey) Active Application This is where we want to get to Historic al Time Inactive Recent Knowledge Limited Extensive

Watch the film online here Parody of Modern Day Church

Parody of Modern Day Church What is like us? What is not like us? Should we make changes?

Newsletter Did anything jar with you? What didn’t feel like ‘us’?

Story Time

Story Time I forbid her to die ½ my salary will be yours As I held the bowl of vomit They sent their children to the worst school The prayer meeting = cleaning party We dug a big hole and buried a car John’s neighbour will be splattered in blood Locked in a cupboard during a riot Enough jam to bathe in …And so they threw us out of the church I wanted to cut the book of James out of the bible He slept across the doorway to protect the girls Jungle + Broken down taxi - Phone Her bed doubled up as her desk The UNKNOWN man became richer whilst we became poorer God wears out carpets

Is the expression of our values relevant?

That was then… …what is now for us? The Adventure continues… Invite the Holy Spirit to bring fresh revelation and application Permission to de-construct and re-construct