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 Of the four tributaries described in the chapter, which would you most identify with and why?

 What are the advantages and disadvantages of the definition of new contextual church offered here?

 What examples of new contextual church have you experienced or are aware of? In what ways do they fit the chapter’s definition?

1The Church Army’s Sheffield Centre has a hard copy and an electronic database of over 40 of these. See www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/fxcp/sfc_onlinelibrary.aspx.

2This is based on the summary of the definition of fresh expression used by the Fresh Expressions team. See www.freshexpressions.org.uk/about/whatis.

3Kilpin and Murray (2007, p. 7) describe these plants as clones, but this is unhelpful. A clone would be genetically identical to the parent church, whereas these church plants were not clones in the literal sense of having all their genes in common. They innovated in a number of ways, such as recognizing the diversity of their mission contexts, being lay led with a mission team rather than a single leader, carrying out serious mission audit and in some cases pioneering different forms of worship. I am grateful to Bob and Mary Hopkins for pointing this out.

4The definition is a modified version of the one used by Fresh Expressions. See www.sharetheguide.org/section1/1.

5Church Times, 16 December 2011.

6 www.freshexpressions.org.uk/stories.

7 www.freshexpressions.org.uk/about.