Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Re-imagining Mission for a spiritual Age Listening to the Spirit of the Age

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Double listening (Mission-Shaped Church) Two ears one mouth Use accordingly in mission Failure to enter the other persons world leaves us like the tourists who keep speaking louder in their own language Failure to enter the other persons world leaves us like the tourists who keep speaking louder in their own language To the Mission Context To the essence of the Christian Inheritance

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Post-modernity? Modernity to Postmodernity I tell my story I choose my beliefs I buy my identity The logic of consumerism

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Post-Christendom? 9% monthly 26% De Churched 65% Non Churched 76% of New Christians Come from 26% De- Churched finding faith today 1992 This section of the population is older and decreasing over time Church attendance 2005

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Post-Christendom? Not just about church attendance –Grace Davie, - Believing without belonging and vicarious faith But changing belief But changing belief Fading of occasional office Fading of occasional office Decline in Christian identity Decline in Christian identity –Stages in the decline of Christendom not a new way for it to persist

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Belief in God

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Infant Baptism C of E 2007

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Church Weddings 2007

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Christian Affiliation UK

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Christian Affiliation 2001

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Christian Affiliation

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Not belonging to any religion

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Builders (born 20s+30s) in 2005

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Boomers (born 40s+50s) in 2005

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Gen-Xers (born 60s+70s) in 2005

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Gen-Yers (born 80s+90s) in 2015?

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Post- Secularism? Post-modernity - multi-faith in a post-secular age Post-modernity - multi-faith in a post-secular age –Post-modern move from truth as fact to truth as experience - From universal truth to true for me may be different to true for you. –Rejection of objectivity for subjectivity –Personal belief re-enters the public square –Any and every belief …. All are equally unprovable –All of this much to the annoyance of Richard Dawkins……. and Christians? –Religion once more on the agenda but any religion with no way back to Christendom …..indeed is Christianity disadvantaged compared to the alternatives?

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 The Media Growth in TV shows on the supernatural, spiritual and paranormal – Growth in TV shows on the supernatural, spiritual and paranormal – –Fiction … supernatural, sea of souls, Buffy, demons, Hex, charmed, Sabrina the teenage witch, apparitions, treu blood, the vampire diaries –‘fact’…..haunted homes, most haunted, healers, Britain's psychic challenge, documentaries on mediums, Pagans, teenage witches etc Move from ‘Scooby Do’ approach where the ghosts are found not to exist to an approach where the balance is to believe in them Move from ‘Scooby Do’ approach where the ghosts are found not to exist to an approach where the balance is to believe in them Replacement of the priest with the medium, investigator or demon hunter. Replacement of the priest with the medium, investigator or demon hunter.

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 ‘Spiritual’ experience in 2000 Vs % saw a patterning of events – up 90% 38% felt God’s presence – up 41% 37% had answered prayer – up 48% 29% felt sacred in nature – up 81% 25% the presence of the dead – up 39% But what are they experiencing? 25% the presence of evil – up 108% % report a spiritual experience risen to 76%

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Belief in God or higher power

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Children to be raised with belief in God

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Believe in the soul

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Believe in an afterlife

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Believe in restless spirits

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Believe in Karma

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Experience of fortune telling, Tarot, astrology, psychics, palmists

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 I have more faith in astrology than organised religion

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Believe in magic

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Australian Gen Y – like Britain? Floating 46 % ‘new spiritual’ 23%Religious 17% Non believing 14% Rationalist humanist Includes neo pagans and followers or frequent participants in the esoteric/occult Moral relativism, pick ‘n’ mix, truth in all religions but not just one, something ‘out there’ occult and paranormal experienced BUT open rather than committed or seeing as important

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Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Consumer Christianity?

Steve Hollinghurst June 10 Consumer Christianity? God the cosmic therapist? God the cosmic therapist? Cruise liner – or Battleship? Cruise liner – or Battleship? John Wimber Church shopping? Church shopping? –Looking for what I get out of it –Looking for the one that does things my way Buying religious product? Buying religious product? –Occasional offices –Rosaries –Retreats –Spiritual direction