Gary Nelson and Fred Harrell City Church Our Story Rev Fred Harrell City Church San Francisco Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm Winston Churchill ID: 229791
Download Presentation The PPT/PDF document "Rhythm & Reign: Living as Church on ..." is the property of its rightful owner. Permission is granted to download and print the materials on this web site for personal, non-commercial use only, and to display it on your personal computer provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright notices contained in the materials. By downloading content from our website, you accept the terms of this agreement.
Slide1
Rhythm & Reign: Living as Church on the Margins of Culture & Foretaste of the Kingdom
Gary Nelson and Fred HarrellSlide2
City Church: Our Story
Rev Fred HarrellCity Church San FranciscoSlide3
"Success consists of
going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."Winston ChurchillSlide4
OUR
CHALLENGEWAS TWOFOLDSlide5
To create a gracious environmentSlide6
To create a culture where the good news is being lived outSlide7
IT IS A COUNTERINTUITIVE
WAY OF DOING CHURCHSlide8
A CHURCH
“NOT JUST FOR OURSELVES”Slide9
A CHURCH THAT TRIES ALWAYS
TO REMEMBER WHAT IT’SLIKE NOT TO BELIEVESlide10
I BELIEVE WE HAVE SEEN THIS
TAKE PLACE DUE TOFOUR MAJOR COMMITMENTSSlide11
COMMITMENT NUMBER 1
Developing a Mentality of Churchas Mission OutpostSlide12
All is done
“before the nations”Slide13
Cultivating the bringer mentalitySlide14
ComprehensibileSlide15
Constant EvaluationSlide16
COMMITMENT NUMBER 2
Embodying the Good News as a Church with Kingdom PrioritiesSlide17
The Kingdom of God:
God coming to reclaimand restore His creationSlide18
We Seek the Renewal
of All Things andShalom of AllSlide19
Modeling the Sociological Impossibility of the ChurchSlide20
Community:
Embodying the Gospelto Each OtherSlide21
COMMITMENT NUMBER 3
Understanding our ContextSlide22
NEW TO CHRISTIANITYSlide23
COMPETENTSlide24
VISUALSlide25
SUSPICIOUSSlide26
POLITICIZEDSlide27
ARGUING WITH MESlide28
RESPECTS THEIR OWN
“AUTHORITIES”NOT MY AUTHORITIESSlide29
DYING FOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY, BUT HAVE AN INABILITY TO EXPERIENCE ITSlide30
HAS A HUNGER FOR A LINK TO THE PAST, AND DOESN
’T WANT TO BE BOUND TO GLITZ AND SHALLOWNESSSlide31
COMMITMENT NUMBER 4
A Pastoral Commitment toIncarnate the GospelSlide32
A commitment to intense pastoral involvementSlide33
You must listenSlide34
You must get inside their worldSlide35
You must let them into your worldSlide36
You must be a pacesetterSlide37
You must develop leaders and attenders who are sensitive to the vision and who take into account these contextual commitmentsSlide38Slide39
Question:
Is your church the kind of place that makes people say:Slide40
“
This is where I need to bring my non-Christian friends,this is exactly what they need to hear, and how they need to hear it!”Slide41
Wait! This isn
’t a nurturing model…or is it?Slide42
Mission breeds discipleship, and is the fuel of Christian growth!Slide43Slide44
“
Thursday, March 29. I left London and in the evening expounded to a small company in Basingstoke. Sat. 31. In the evening I reached Bristol and met Mr. Whitefield there. I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, Slide45
of
which he set me an example on Sunday, having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin if it had not been done in a church.” Slide46
“Mon. 2. At four in the afternoon I submitted to ‘be more vile’, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation, speaking from a little eminence in a ground adjoining to the city, to about three thousand people.”From Wesley’s published Journal, for March-April 1739 (The Works of John Wesley, vol. 19, Ed. W. R. Ward and R. P. Heitzenrater (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990), 46). The ‘be more vile’ quote is from 2 Samuel 6:22. Slide47
Rooting Our Identity
“ When the spine of identity is well established, it is possible to risk relating in depth to those whoa re different from ourselves. When the spine of identity is weak, then everything is a threat.” - James Fowler Weaving the New CreationSlide48
“In the context of the secularized, post-Christian West our witness will be credible only if it flows from a local, worshiping community.
Newbigin suggests that the only hermeneutic of the gospel is a congregation of men and women who believe it and live by it. ” - David J. BoschSlide49
REFLECTION
What are you going to take back with you to your local church context?