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Welcome to Dinner, Church

Welcome to Dinner, Church
Author: Verlon Fosner
Publisher: Seedbed
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2017-03-17
Genre: Church
ISBN: 9781628244205

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Church was not always done the way we do it. There was a time when Christians gathered around tables, included the strangers and the poor, ate together, and talked about Jesus. This form of church occurred mostly during the first three hundred years of Christianity, and was highly effective in bringing lost people to Jesus. While the church of today is very meaningful to Christ-followers, it is failing to help our lost neighbors find their way to the Savior. That is no small concern for Jesus' churches, all of which are called to be in the rescue business. This little book examines what it might be like for a traditional church to plant a Dinner Church in a nearby hurting neighborhood.


Fresh Expressions

Fresh Expressions
Author: Kenneth H. Carter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2017
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781501849206

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New forms of church that gather and network with people who typically have never been to church.


Fresh Expressions of People Over Property

Fresh Expressions of People Over Property
Author: Bishop Kenneth H. Carter Jr.
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1791004768

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Our church buildings, synagogues, and other religious places – which once stood as beacons of hope and reverence for its community – have become a burden for the organizations who seek to keep them standing. In efforts to patch leaky roofs and paint over years of wear, leaders are putting more and more money each year into property instead of people. The practices we have fallen into to keep a building running are not only demoralizing to the pastoral profession and the mission of the church, but they also run the risk of violating property tax laws and incurring more debt. What if our properties didn’t have to be a source of pain but one of purpose and profit? Can we as faith-based organizations begin to think collaboratively about how we might further our missions by creatively and intentionally rethinking how we utilize the space we inhabit? In Fresh Expressions of People Over Property the authors reflect on strategies, scriptures, and stories that help leaders faithfully re-imagine their community spaces so that they reflect that God and God’s people value people over property.


A Field Guide to Methodist Fresh Expressions

A Field Guide to Methodist Fresh Expressions
Author: Michael Adam Beck
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1501899104

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According to Fresh Expressions U.S., "a Fresh Expression is a form of church for our changing culture, established primarily for the benefit of those who are not yet part of any church." Fresh Expressions are introducing people to Jesus, expanding the kingdom, and revitalizing churches. Congregations need a practical and theological resource that can help them cultivate Fresh Expressions. As consultants who work nationwide and as innovative pastors, authors Michael Beck and Jorge Acevedo awaken congregational leaders and ministry teams to a distinctive Wesleyan approach for the Fresh Expressions movement. In Wesleyan Fresh Expressions, they show congregations how to cultivate and customize fresh expressions that fit their local context. They motivate ministry teams to take risks, experiment, and when necessary, fail well. On April 2, 1739, John Wesley went to a field just outside what was then the city limits of Bristol, England. There he tried a missional innovation called field preaching. Thousands of people showed up, many of whom who had no connection with a church. Today, most Methodists and other Wesleyans don’t know their own story. Lost in the milieu of divisive issues that threaten to tear the church apart, Wesleyans have forgotten their DNA as a renewal movement, born not from doctrinal disputes but from a missional imperative. In this sense, the Fresh Expressions movement is the most “Methodist” thing in the denomination today. This iteration of the Spirit is taking it to the fields again. Wesleyan Fresh Expressions will help guide the way.


Rewilding the Church

Rewilding the Church
Author: Steve Aisthorpe
Publisher: Saint Andrew Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2018-01-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0715209833

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Rewilding the Church explores afresh the compelling invitation of Jesus to ‘Follow me’ and the call to ‘throw off everything that hinders and entangles’. It poses provocative questions and issues a call to contribute to the great rewilding of the Church – and to be rewilded ourselves. The same human instincts that have disrupted our natural environment have also constrained and domesticated the Church and Rewilding the Church commends a rediscovery of the adventure of faith.


For the Parish

For the Parish
Author: Andrew Davison
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334047625

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Fresh Expressions of Church are most significant development in the Church of England. Parishes are the mainstay of the 'inherited church'. The authors demonstrate that the traditions of the parish church represent ways in which time, space, community are ordered in relation to God and the gospel.


Ancient Faith, Future Mission

Ancient Faith, Future Mission
Author: Steven J. L. Croft
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1596272228

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The spiritual practices and insights of the Anglican tradition make an extraordinary contribution to mission efforts in our postmodern, de-churched, never-churched, yet spiritually hungry society. In this timely and practical book, pioneers, leaders and theologians from the US and the UK share their stories and offer reflections for building a future-focused, mission-shaped church that is deeply rooted in sacramental traditions.


Fresh!

Fresh!
Author: David Goodhew
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334043875

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An authoritative introduction on Fresh Expressions and Pioneer Ministry, Fresh ! combines a serious theological engagement with earthy practicality. It offers perspective based on the years that have now passed since Mission-Shaped Church.


Becoming Church

Becoming Church
Author: Luke Edwards
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734508109

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Fresh Expressions in a Digital Age

Fresh Expressions in a Digital Age
Author: Michael Adam Beck
Publisher:
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781791023843

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Fresh Expressions is a canary in the coal mine, alerting congregations to reevaluate what the Church is, where and when it can happen, and who can lead it. Church as we know it is inaccessible to most people. A fundamental premise of the movement is that Church can become accessible again by emerging in every nook and cranny where life already happens. Fresh Expressions is based in simplification, returning to basic scriptural principles, and a recovery of a "priesthood of all believers"--in the three places where people live and relate to others. First Place: The home or primary place of residence. Second Place: The workplace or school place. Third Place: The public places separate from the two usual social environments of home and workplace, which host regular, voluntary, informal, and neutral spaces of communion and play. Examples are environments such as cafes, pubs, theaters, parks, and so on. During a pandemic, our two primary mission spaces were closed off; the second and third places were shut down. We couldn't have Tattoo Parlor Church; the tattoo parlor was closed. We couldn't gather in Moe's Southwest Grill for Burritos and Bibles; they were doing take-out only. The dog park was empty; no Paws of Praise. This limited us to the only spaces we have left: the first place, or the home place. The digital place, or the "space of flows." This forces us into recognizing the digital space as its own kind of third place, a new missional frontier.