1. The Normal Radical

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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

6. Avoid ‘Drag and Drop’

7. Avoid ‘Drag and Drop’

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Watch the film online here
Parody of Modern Day Church

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

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

18. Story Time

19. 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

20. Is the expression of our values relevant?

21. 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