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Fresh expressions is an initiative set up by the Church of England partnering with the Methodist Church and United Reformed Church. It aims to help Christians of any denomination to think about ways of starting and growing fresh expressions of church in their area.
A fresh expression of is a form of church for our changing culture, established primarily for the benefit of people who are not yet members of any church.
It will come into being through principles of listening service, incarnational mission and making disciples.
It will have the potential to become a mature expression of church shaped by the gospel and the enduring marks of the church and for its cultural context.
Fresh Expressions are:
- Missional - serving people outside the church
- Incarnational - listening to people and entering their culture
- Educational - making discipleship a priority
- Ecclesial - forming church
"The Church of England is committed to supporting, blessing and enabling historic ways of doing church to be as missional, hospitable and winning as many others as they possbily can. We also believe historic church alone can't do it in our changed culture; therefore we also need to plant Fresh Expressions of church, not to replace the historic but to supplement it. The long-term vision is that in every decent-sized parish in the Church of England, in every Methodist circuit, in every local group of smaller churches, you'll find both mission-focused historic church and you will find Fresh Expressions of church, planted to reach those that historic church doesn't reach. The vision is that the two together becomes the norm in this country."
Find out more about mission shaped intro
Find out more about mission shaped ministry
Information about Changing the Landscape
Information about the fresh expressions road show
Information about the Lincolnshire FEAST
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