Church for Every Context

Church for Every Context
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Michael Moynagh. Church for Every Context

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Four tributaries

Church planting

The emerging church conversation

Fresh expressions of church

Communities in mission

New monasticism

Definition

Some examples

Missional, contextual, formational and ecclesial

Scope of the book

An outline of the book

Resources

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Saint Paul’s New Contextual Churches

From mission as ‘come’ to mission as ‘go’

Centripetal mission in Israel

The emergence of centrifugal mission

Sustaining the ‘mixed economy’

The dispute over identity

Maintaining fellowship

Paul’s use of teams

From mission team to centre mission

Keys to effective teamwork

Paul’s methods

Paul’s strategy

Evangelism was much more than preaching

Culture-specific churches?

Jerusalem and Antioch

Rome

Paul’s churches

Sustainable leadership

Delegation with support

Church took its shape from future leaders

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Contextual Churches in History

Real presence in Antioch

The word of life from the north to the south of England

Benedict’s guidance of souls

The Beguines on the edge

Nicholas Ferrar’s holy calling

John Wesley’s mirror of God

Charles Kingsley’s life in the kingdom

Dorothy L. Sayers’s pub audience

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Fresh Expressions of Church in Britain

Complexity theory

What are complexity theories?

A fourfold model

Disequilibrium

Growing dis-ease with church

Combinations of difference

Amplification

Spreading stories

The Fresh Expressions team

Official support

Networks

Amplification and the individual

Recombination/self-organization

Old and new attractors

The strength of the old attractor

The mixed economy

Corridors

Regional and local cooperation

‘Temples’, ‘synagogues’ and ‘tents’

Downward causation

Stabilization

Adapting to the denomination

Adapting to the context

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Sociological Perspectives

An ecclesial turn

Secularization

A problem of demand or supply?

A self-limiting church?

A blueprint for change

An ethical turn

What lies behind this change?

Some characteristics of the expressive self

Connecting with an immanent world

An economic and social turn

From a mass to a customized world

The space of flows

Networks and emergence

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

What is the Purpose and Nature of the Church?

What is the purpose of the church?

Church-shaped kingdom?

World-shaped kingdom?

Kingdom-shaped church

The essence of church

Mission and communion approaches

Church as four sets of relationships2

Relationships and practices

Why this four-relationships approach?

Mature church

A starting definition

Who should decide?

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Should Mission be a First Step for the Church?

The mission of God

What is the place of mission?

Mission as a second step for God?

Mission as an attribute of God

Mission as an eternal step for God

What is the nature of mission?

Self-giving as the essence of God

Self-giving as the essence of mission

What is the goal of mission?

How does the church share in God’s mission?

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Mission by Individuals or Communities?

Stanley Hauerwas and Lesslie Newbigin

Stanley Hauerwas

Lesslie Newbigin

Gathered for worship, scattered for mission

Community-in-mission

The divine communion-in-mission

The creation mandate

Community-in-mission after the Fall

Communal mission in the local church

Scattered and gathered for mission

The potential of communal mission

Some challenges

How small is church?

Providing support

Belonging to more than one church

Remaining missional

Meeting challenges step by step

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Why Church with Many Shapes?

Three arguments for contextualization

Contextualization is part of life

God’s revelation involves contextualization

Contextualization serves the kingdom

What are the limits to contextualization?

A gospel core?

An ecclesial core?

Some criteria

Approaching contextualization contextually

The translation model

The anthropological model

The praxis model

The conversation model

The counter-cultural model

The subjective model

Using these models in new contextual churches

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Are Culture-specific Churches Legitimate?

Three views

A missional goal

A missional first step

A missional no-go

Focused-and-connected church

An argument from social reality

An argument from God’s purposes

An argument from election

An argument from the new creation

Arguments from justice

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Are New Contextual Churches Faithful to the Tradition?

Identifying with the context

Serving a culture

Dying for a culture

The departure of Jesus

Christ will fill all cultures

Church in every place

Diversity and unity

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

How Do Contextual Churches Emerge?

Birthing churches as a church practice

Simple, complicated, complex and chaotic contexts

The birthing of church as a ‘practice’

Some implications

Journeys to church

A worship-first journey

A serving-first journey

Introducing Jesus

Some clarifications

A rationale

Empirical evidence

A strategic rationale

A theological rationale

An earlier version

A qualification

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Gathering a Mission Community

Two theoretical approaches

Rational choice

Identity voyages

The emerging leader

Recognition of a call

Recognition by followers

Forming the mission community

Gathering the community

The decision to join

Some dangers

Hearing a mission call

Developing a mission focus

Mission values

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Researching Opportunities

What does researching opportunities involve?

Recognition or creation?

Researching as contextual mission

Who are the research partners?

The context

Christian friends and the local church

The wider church

What should be researched?

Draw on what you know

Opportunities and resources

Indigenous leadership

What research methods should be used?

Observation

Conversation

Experimentation

Participation

Investigation

Imagination

How might the results of research be processed?

Corporate alertness

How might a vision emerge?

The nature of the vision

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Engaging Partners

Partners

Prayer partners

The people the venture is called to serve

Permission-givers

Holders of purse strings

Partnerships

The public

Building a web of belief

Forming relationships of trust

What influences success?

What do webs of belief deliver?

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Action-based Learning

Planning as learning

An unpredictable world

Learning by doing

Planning through conversations

Looking forward and looking back

Looking forward

Looking back

Discerning the initiative’s values

Combining looking forward and looking back

Milestone reviews

The value of milestone reviews

Planning not plans

Evaluation

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Team Awareness

Conversations and community

Understanding organizations

The emergent nature of leadership

Three temptations

The dynamics of conversations

Attending to conversations

Forming

Size and composition

Becoming community

Noting conversational patterns

Norming

Spiritual norms2

Communal norms

Task norms

Talking about norms

Storming

Welcoming conflict

The use of silence

Articulating differences

Communities of grace

Performing

How do church founders learn?

Creating a coaching culture

Adjourning

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Discipleship

Inviting people into the kingdom

Can evangelism be justified?

Evangelistic pointers to Christ

Evangelism within a kingdom narrative

Initiating people into the kingdom

Conversion within the evangelizing community

Milestones to faith

Initiation into the evangelizing community

Forming disciples within the kingdom

Engaging the world

Being present in the world

Formed in community

Connected to the living tradition

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Worship

Worship and mission

The relationship between mission and worship

Bringing worship and mission together

Worship and the journey to faith

The place of worship in evangelism

The role of Holy Communion

The place of worship in initiation

Worship and Christian formation

How far should worship be different to life?

Temples, synagogues and tents

Context and tradition

Distinctive expressions of worship

A liturgical supermarket?

Some good practice

Worship and identity

Texts as a source of identity?

Shape as a source of identity?

Values as a source of identity?

Story as a source of identity

The role of authority

Good practice within the gathering

Celebrating Holy Communion where there is no ordained minister

Generous exceptions

Worship online

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Community

Turning to the Old Testament

Forming community

Hospitality

Exclusiveness and openness

Some notable outsiders

Jesus’ welcome of outsiders

‘Centred-set’ communities

Solidarity

Having a stake

Having a stake in the form of gifts

Dispersing power

Deuteronomy’s ideal

Practising dispersed leadership

Making a difference to life

A community in life

Contextualizing the law

New Testament and subsequent practice

Identity

Identity through story

Contested identities

Community identity today

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Sustainability1

What do we mean by sustainability?

Are the ‘four selfs’ still valid?

An alternative approach

Facing in a sustainable direction

Sustaining the pioneer

Size to fit the context

Simplicity

Simple and clustered

Transitioning from first- to second- generation leaders

Three models

Preparation

Who, when and how?

Keeping fresh

Sustaining church reproduction

Encountering Jesus

Intentionality

Everything is reproducible

Mentoring

Growth through networks

Learning from the context

Remaining missional

Strategies to multiply reproducing churches

Leadership

Definition

Rationale

Lay led

Research

Vision

Initiatives

Support

Conclusion

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Towards the Mixed-economy Church

Prophets, purists and pragmatists

What’s not to like?

Three types of critique

Five theological lenses

A Trinitarian perspective

A creation perspective

A New Testament perspective

A sacramental perspective

A prophetic perspective

Responding to prophets, pragmatists and purists

Prophets

Purists

Pragmatists

What can we hope for?

Further reading

Questions for discussion

Bibliography

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Church for Every Context

An Introduction to Theology and Practice

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Third, Paul had a ‘grand strategy to fulfil the mission of Israel to the nations and to fulfil Israel’s eschatological hopes in regard to the nations’ (Dunn, 2009, p. 543). In his mission, Paul saw himself as acting on behalf of Israel. Dunn follows Rainer Riesner, who argues that the rough direction of Paul’s mission matched the principal direction of travel envisaged in the list of nations in Isaiah 66.19. As one influence on him, Paul seems to have viewed his mission as a fulfilment of Isaiah 66. He was going out to the nations at the end times. The financial gift from his churches for Jerusalem may have symbolized the nations gathering at Zion (Riesner, 1998, pp. 245–56).

Was this a view that Paul had from the start of his mission from Antioch, or did it emerge gradually in the light of his experience? If the latter, Paul can perhaps be seen as a practical theologian (in today’s language), learning from experience as he reflected theologically upon it.12

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