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Rhythm & Reign: Living as Church on the Margins of Culture
& Foretaste of the Kingdom
Gary Nelson and Fred Harrell
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City Church: Our Story
Rev Fred HarrellCity Church San Francisco
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"Success consists ofgoing from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill
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OURCHALLENGE
WAS TWOFOLD
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To create a gracious environment
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To create a culture where the good news is being lived out
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IT IS A COUNTERINTUITIVEWAY OF DOING CHURCH
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A CHURCH“NOT JUST FOR OURSELVES”
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A CHURCH THAT TRIES ALWAYSTO REMEMBER WHAT IT’S
LIKE NOT TO BELIEVE
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I BELIEVE WE HAVE SEEN THISTAKE PLACE DUE TO
FOUR MAJOR COMMITMENTS
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COMMITMENT NUMBER 1Developing a Mentality of Church
as Mission Outpost
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All is done “before the nations”
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Cultivating the bringer mentality
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Comprehensibile
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Constant Evaluation
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COMMITMENT NUMBER 2Embodying the Good News as a Church with Kingdom Priorities
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The Kingdom of God:God coming to reclaim
and restore His creation
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We Seek the Renewalof All Things and
Shalom of All
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Modeling the Sociological Impossibility of the Church
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Community:Embodying the Gospel
to Each Other
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COMMITMENT NUMBER 3Understanding our Context
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NEW TO CHRISTIANITY
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COMPETENT
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VISUAL
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SUSPICIOUS
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POLITICIZED
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ARGUING WITH ME
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RESPECTS THEIR OWN “AUTHORITIES”NOT MY AUTHORITIES
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DYING FOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY, BUT HAVE AN INABILITY TO
EXPERIENCE IT
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HAS A HUNGER FOR A LINK TO THE PAST, AND DOESN’T WANT TO BE
BOUND TO GLITZ AND SHALLOWNESS
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COMMITMENT NUMBER 4A Pastoral Commitment to
Incarnate the Gospel
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A commitment to intense pastoral involvement
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You must listen
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You must get inside their world
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You must let them into your world
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You must be a pacesetter
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You must develop leaders and attenders who are sensitive to the vision and who take into account these contextual commitments
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Question:
Is your church the kind of place that makes people say:
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“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!”
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Wait! This isn’t a nurturing model…or is it?
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Mission breeds discipleship, and is the fuel of Christian growth!
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• “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,
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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.”
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• “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.
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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 Creation
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“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. Bosch
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REFLECTION
What are you going to take back with you to your local church context?