I was interviewed last week by one of the Archbishop of York’s staff.
Here’s the link to the write up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmzq2mwFU_s
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from ASBO Jesus. (HT: Mike Rutter).
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Mission Shaped Intro is a six week course that has been developed by Fresh Expressions to help give people inspiration about mission throught the local church.
You can download the notes for the course here.
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Posted in Faith, tagged Angela Tilby, Fresh Expressions, George Kovoor, Graham Tomlin, Hard Questions, James G D Dunn, John Drane, Lindsay Urwin, Martyn Atkins, Tim Dakin on 8 May 2007 | No Comments »
Fresh Expressions, which is part of the Church of England, has been holding a series of days looking at the Hard Questions - thinking about the deeper issues associated with contempory expressions of church.
Go here to play some sample clips from talks given on these days, get the podcast here, or use the links below [...]
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Mike Rutter sent this link from Encounters on the Edge about Missional Church.
Here’s a quote,
… many of the emerging expressions of church were not mission-shaped, but rather mission flavored.
What’s the difference?
The article makes some great observations and asks some good questions. I particularly like this table:
Mission-Shaped Church
Mission-Flavored Church
Had its origin in a call to mission
Was [...]
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Bishop Mike Hill, who incidentily I believe is the first Church of England blogging Bishop, has some great posts on his blog about the Emmerging Church.
His most recent post is challanging the assumption that a new venture needs paid workers from the beginning.
Here’s a quote …
When we think about beginning a new project, we set [...]
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Posted in Faith, tagged Fresh Expressions on 29 January 2007 | No Comments »
Fresh Expressions is a Church of England initiative which aims to resource mission through encouraging new and different expressions of church life.
The full definition taken from the website is:
A fresh expression of church is a new and/or different way of being church in and for our changing culture.
A fresh expression of church is not normally [...]
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Mike Hill, Bishop of Bristol, has a great post on his blog: Cynicism the antidote to innovation.
Here’s a quote from what he says:
The first rule of innovation is to give people permission to fail. God knows we need a group of out on the edge, entrepreneurial church leaders who are prepared to have a go.
Of [...]
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