st February 2014 Helping local churches learn how to make disciples The Diocese of Chelmsford Our Passion is Jesus proclaiming and living out Gods love for all people Our aspiration is to be a ID: 275144
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Chelmsford Cathedral – 1st February 2014
Helping local churches learn how to make disciplesSlide2
The Diocese of ChelmsfordOur Passion is Jesus - proclaiming and living out God's love for all people Our aspiration is to be a
Transforming Presence in every Community, open and welcoming to all, and serving all Our Resources are faithful people, prayer and worship, visionary leadership, liberating giftsSlide3
Every local church seeing people come to faithEvery local church making disciplesSlide4
Contact
Commitment
Church membership
Nurture
Growth
Growth SpiralSlide5
1 Corinthians 3: three images of the catechistSlide6
“I fed you with milk not solid food”Slide7
Does your church have a maternity ward?Slide8
milk and solid food...Slide9
“I planted,
Apollos watered, but God gave the growth”Slide10
Why do only 40% of local churches offer any course for enquirers or new Christians?
What should that figure be?Slide11
Spiritual and numerical growth go togetherGod is the EvangelistCould every church run at least one course every year?Slide12
I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each day. No one should think that this invitation is not meant for him or her, since “no one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord”.
Pope Francis, Evangelii GaudiumSlide13
A simple annual cycleSlide14
“Like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation
and someone else is building on it”Slide15
Where should a local church deploy its best and most skilled teachers?With enquirers and new Christians or with established disciples?Could every priest and every Reader or LLM make time to teach one group of adults
every week?Slide16
Who else can be part of this work of catechesis and evangelism?Slide17Slide18
What is your strategy as a parish for encouraging catechesis and making disciples?Which course suits you?