2. Seven simple steps

3. 1
There is no going back 3

4. Be strong & courageous

5. Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai (1978)
In working with young people do not try to call them back to where they were, and do not try to call them to where you are, as beautiful as that place might seem to you.
You must have the courage to go with them to a place that neither you nor they have ever been before.
Christianity Rediscovered: An Epistle from the Masai (1978) 5

6. Dying to live “ I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat
falls to the ground and dies, it remains only
a single seed. But if it dies, it produces
many seeds.”
John 12; 23-6 6

7. You must get the order right2
You must get the order right 7

8. Prayer
Love
Relate
Create
Prayer

9. Inspiration Investigation Intuition Imagination Experimentation.

10. 3
Why are you here? 10

11. The church is Gods gift to the world.
Why are you here?
The church is Gods gift to the world.

12. ‘ the church is missionary by it’s very nature…….
the church does not have a mission
but the mission has a church.’
Prophetic Dialogue.
Bevans and Scroeder .

13. Darrell Guder, Missional Church, p6
Moving from church as a place where
certain things take place to
church as a body of people sent
on a mission
Darrell Guder, Missional Church, p6

14. The big picture of mission
Community
context
Word
Event

15. ‘ The verbal witness indeed remains
indispensable, not least because our
deeds and our conduct are
ambiguous, they need elucidation.’
David Bosch
‘euangelion’ appears 72 times in gospels
It means good news or gospel’.
Used for birthday party
Announcement of birth
Victory

16. 4
Learn from the fridge 16

17. Effectuation Learn from the fridge Effectuation Saras Sarasvathy

18. Three key questions for mission
Who am I ?
What do I know?
Who do I know ?

19. How might you answer the three key questions for mission
in your context ?

20. We are doing this so that…..5
We are doing this so that….. 20

21. To make
of Jesus
Goal 1 of Diocese s 21

23. instruction imitation participation model with others
Dance like this …………………………
instruction
imitation
participation
model with others
Many ways to dance -variety

24. Personal
Co-operative
Life long learning
Communal
Whole of life

25. What kind of people are we called to be?
What kind of community is capable of
raising people like that?

26. What are you asking us to do?6
What are you asking us to do? 26

27. Not my job
Not equipped
Not gifted
Move from us to we

28. What are we asking everyone to do? So what else do we need to do
1. Pray specifically for people
2. Tell our story and the story
Not give a doctrinal defence of Christian faith
3. Invite
In lots of different ways
So what else do we need to do
collectively ?

29. Telling is not

30. YOU CAN’T PREDICT THE OUTCOME
Control to stir
Answers to questions
Certainty to risk

31. Multiplying small is beautiful7
Multiplying small is beautiful 31

32. The average size is 44 and starting team size is 3-12
75% people outside church,
40% unchurched, % dechurched
45% progression and 61% pioneer
49% lay led
83% parish, 11% deanery and 6% Diocese .

33. As a church what one thing do you need to do to see more clearly ?
2. As a church what one thing must you
stop doing to see more clearly?
3. What questions are you left with?