1. Is new life possible? Fresh Expressions and missional Church in SA?

2. Hinge period, cultural shift or crisis?

3. Changing world and attitudes

4. Mobility and networks

5. Consumerism work.buy.consume.die

6. Post ’94 Born Frees

7. Struggling to reconcile?

8. Christ and Culture

9. Synopsis of 5 challenges
Secularisation
Pluralisation
Consumerism
Post apartheid
Post colonial

10. is a form of church for our changing culture
A Fresh Expression
is a form of church for our changing culture
established primarily for the
benefit of people who are
not yet members of any church.
It will come into being through principles of listening, service,
incarnational mission and making disciples.
It will have the potential to become a mature expression of
church shaped by the gospel and the enduring marks of the church
and for its cultural context.

11. Listening for mission

12. It starts with...
Double Listening (to the context/community and to the spirit of God)
Service (not a service)
It is essentially incarnational as opposed to attractional or engaged (see Models)
It seeks to make disciples

13. 3 Models

14. both-and continue to grow and develop the church as it is
establish fresh expressions
of church

16. 5 Marks of Mission 1. Missional church is focused on God as Trinity
Lambeth Conference 1988
1. Missional church is focused on God as Trinity
2. Missional church is incarnational
3. Missional church is transformational
4. Missional church makes disciples
5. Missional church is relational

17. Dispelling 5 myths
Fresh Expressions are a replacement for inherited and traditional ways of doing church.

18. Dispelling 5 myths
2. Fresh Expressions are only appropriate where the church is in terminal decline.

19. Dispelling 5 myths
3. Fresh Expressions are merely a tool for getting people back into “real” church.

20. Dispelling 5 myths
4. Fresh Expressions are only for white, middle class suburban settings. The Black churches are growing and don’t need any new ideas.

21. Dispelling 5 myths
5. Fresh Expressions are not Anglican! Doing things in different ways causes disunity.

22. Listening for mission

23. Tubestation, Polzeath

24. Zac’s place

25. Somewhere else