http://www.freshexpressions.ca Thu, 16 May 2013 14:53:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.freshexpressions.ca http://www.freshexpressions.ca/mixed-economy-church-in-a-changing-urban-context/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mixed-economy-church-in-a-changing-urban-context http://www.freshexpressions.ca/mixed-economy-church-in-a-changing-urban-context/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:40:20 +0000 Ryan Sim http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=7687 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/mixed-economy-church-in-a-changing-urban-context/feed/ 0 Audio,Church Planting,Lectures This is a workshop given by Simon Bell at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. This is a workshop given by Simon Bell at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/basics-of-vital-church-planting-fresh-expressions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=basics-of-vital-church-planting-fresh-expressions http://www.freshexpressions.ca/basics-of-vital-church-planting-fresh-expressions/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:40:16 +0000 Ryan Sim http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=7685 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/basics-of-vital-church-planting-fresh-expressions/feed/ 0 Audio,Church Planting,Lectures This is a workshop given by Nick Brotherwood at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. This is a workshop given by Nick Brotherwood at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/missional-coaching/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=missional-coaching http://www.freshexpressions.ca/missional-coaching/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:40:18 +0000 Ryan Sim http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=7686 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/missional-coaching/feed/ 0 Audio,Church Planting,Lectures This is a workshop given by Duke Vipperman at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. This is a workshop given by Duke Vipperman at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/starting-restarting-community-in-every-generation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=starting-restarting-community-in-every-generation http://www.freshexpressions.ca/starting-restarting-community-in-every-generation/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:40:03 +0000 Ryan Sim http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=7683 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/starting-restarting-community-in-every-generation/feed/ 0 Audio,Church Planting,Lectures,Youth and Children This is a workshop given by Melissa Graham Burke at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. This is a workshop given by Melissa Graham Burke at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/vcp-2011-plenary-by-steve-croft/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vcp-2011-plenary-by-steve-croft http://www.freshexpressions.ca/vcp-2011-plenary-by-steve-croft/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:30:06 +0000 Ryan Sim http://freshexpressions.ca/?p=7652 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/vcp-2011-plenary-by-steve-croft/feed/ 0 Audio,Church Planting,Lectures This is a plenary talk given by Bishop Steve Croft at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. This is a plenary talk given by Bishop Steve Croft at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/vcp-2011-plenary-by-beth-fellinger/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vcp-2011-plenary-by-beth-fellinger http://www.freshexpressions.ca/vcp-2011-plenary-by-beth-fellinger/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:34:33 +0000 Ryan Sim http://freshexpressions.ca/?p=7653 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/vcp-2011-plenary-by-beth-fellinger/feed/ 0 Audio,Church Planting,Lectures This is a plenary talk given by Beth Fellinger at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. This is a plenary talk given by Beth Fellinger at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/fresh-expressions-in-the-sacramental-tradition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fresh-expressions-in-the-sacramental-tradition http://www.freshexpressions.ca/fresh-expressions-in-the-sacramental-tradition/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:59:23 +0000 Ryan Sim http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=7632 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/fresh-expressions-in-the-sacramental-tradition/feed/ 0 Audio,Church Planting,Worship This is a workshop given by Bishop Stephen Cottrell, and facilitated by Father David Harrison, at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. This is a workshop given by Bishop Stephen Cottrell, and facilitated by Father David Harrison, at the Vital Church Planting Conference 2011. Fresh Expressions Canada no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/dna-the-mechanisms-of-planting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dna-the-mechanisms-of-planting http://www.freshexpressions.ca/dna-the-mechanisms-of-planting/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:55:01 +0000 Ryan Sim http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=142 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/dna-the-mechanisms-of-planting/feed/ 2 church,planting,canada,anglican,fresh,expressions This lecture was delivered at the Vital Church Planting Conference in Toronto Feb 2008 : Session TWO Listen to the Podcast: View as Microsoft Powerpoint File       In the 1st session we looked at DNA understood as what was being planted. This lecture was delivered at the Vital Church Planting Conference in Toronto Feb 2008 : Session TWO Listen to the Podcast: View as Microsoft Powerpoint File       In the 1st session we looked at DNA understood as what was being planted. The 2nd session takes DNA in another sense and teases out how it happens - what are the processes or mechanisms of creating or planting churches.  In England we have nearly stopped using the noun a church plant for at least two reasons. One we have found there are many kinds of churches that can be planted so the language of church plant is too restrictive. 2nd our experience has been that too many so called church plants have been unhelpfully similar to the parent body that sent them and not well enough adapted to their mission context. If effect they were transplanted.  So we prefer to call what is being created "fresh expressions of church". However we still think that the verb church planting is valuable, it describes a process,  and the first session partly explored why. Church Planting is the discipline and Fresh Expressions are the fruit of that discipline. So we would talk of planting fresh expressions of church. [FXC] This connects with the first point to make about DNA understood as how planting FXC happens.   1       Seeds are key Going our from existing church in apostolic mission we take with us seeds - of both the gospel and church - as we saw in session one.  The seeds only get taken out and planted as the missionary journey unfolds.  These seeds then must die to take root in the context to which we are sent.   The essential principle is, SEEDS MUST BE ALLOWED TO DIE.   The report Mission-shaped Church  talks about this both in its 3rd chapter on church planting and its chapter 5 on theology.  This instinct is rooted in Jesus words in John 12; they suggest that dying to live is inherent in the Christian way.  This is not some weird game only those in planting FXC play. Baptism should have reminded us of that, it is symbolic enactment of, and identification with, the Death and Resurrection of Christ. He makes it clear that his patterns are to be ours.  John 12  contains the text "If any one serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there shall my servant be also."   It is curious and worrying that while we have taken the notion of death and resurrection into some liturgical rites, we link it to the church's year, we embrace it in some patterns of spirituality, but we have broadly omitted taking it into mission. Yet the very person who taught mission to us said it was the pattern of his mission.   Jesus made it quite clear that his followers are committed to his pattern.  Turn on in the same Gospel, to John 20, and the same Jesus is bringing peace among the startled disciplines. He shows them his hands and his side - the cost is not glossed over. Then these missionary headline words follow, or if you prefer ecclesiological language - at this point apostolic identity, is conferred on the church."As the Father sent me so I send you."     What a word as is: As - in the same manner as I was sent as God's apostle - so I send youAs - on the same journey from incarnational identification with culture, to disclosure of the Lordship endorsing counter cultural engagement - so I send you.As - in the same way as I the seed died in the ground and have now emerged both similar and different - so I send you.As I - [in the way Paul described in Philippians 2] the eternal Son was willing to die to the glories of heaven, to be transformed into the form of a dying slave - so I send you.As  - in the same way of becoming very different to become like those to whom I was sent,  - so I send you.  Have no doubt that the patterns of Jesus are for us all. They are for the whole church, most especially when it gets clear that Church is extension of the mission of Jesus.  The patterns apply to the creation of Fresh Expressions of Church. They apply in all cross cultural work. George Lings no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/dna-the-essence-of-what-is-being-planted/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dna-the-essence-of-what-is-being-planted http://www.freshexpressions.ca/dna-the-essence-of-what-is-being-planted/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:39:28 +0000 Ryan Sim http://institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=141 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/dna-the-essence-of-what-is-being-planted/feed/ 0 church,planting,dna,anglican,evangelism,fresh,expressions This lecture was delivered at the Vital Church Planting Conference in Toronto Feb 2008: Session 2 Listen to the Podcast: View DNA: The Essence of What Is Being Planted as a Microsoft Powerpoint File        This lecture was delivered at the Vital Church Planting Conference in Toronto Feb 2008: Session 2 Listen to the Podcast: View DNA: The Essence of What Is Being Planted as a Microsoft Powerpoint File        I share the view of the Archbishop of Canter... George Lings no http://www.freshexpressions.ca/kingdom-without-christendom-in-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kingdom-without-christendom-in-canada http://www.freshexpressions.ca/kingdom-without-christendom-in-canada/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:35:28 +0000 Ryan Sim http://www.institute.wycliffecollege.ca/?p=812 http://www.freshexpressions.ca/kingdom-without-christendom-in-canada/feed/ 0 church,planting,fresh,expressions,anglican,canada   This was a lecture given at the 2008 Vital Church Planting Conference.   This audio file is for registered members only. Log in or register for FREE by clicking here. Listen to the Podcast: Part 1: Part 2:   This was a lecture given at the 2008 Vital Church Planting Conference.   This audio file is for registered members only. Log in or register for FREE by clicking here. Listen to the Podcast: Part 1: Part 2: Connie den Bok no