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Chasing God – Worth the risk?

Chasing God – Worth the risk?. Workshop led by Revd. David Moss, Tizz and Mark Chester. Waltham Chase Mission Statement. Mark 12 v 30 & 31 ‘Love the Lord God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. …

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Chasing God – Worth the risk?

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  1. Chasing God – Worth the risk? Workshop led by Revd. David Moss, Tizz and Mark Chester

  2. Waltham Chase Mission Statement Mark 12 v 30 & 31 ‘Love the Lord God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. … Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’

  3. Stories of Chase risk taking

  4. Things we’ve attempted • Food bank • Week of prayer • Days of fasting • House Groups • Alpha • Youth Worker • Prayer meetings • Youth Clubs • Prospects Group • History Group • Holiday clubs • Radio station • Football teams • Quiz nights • Olympic Games • Big name concerts – Yazz • Musicals • Comedy nights • Car washes • Victorian Weekend

  5. Things we have done “Risk taking obedience is required today as the Holy Spirit prepares the way.”Martyn Atkins “Resourcing Renewal”2007

  6. Is it Worth the risk?

  7. Waltham Chase Methodist Church An Intergenerational Church? By accident or design? A few mistakes and some successes!

  8. An Intergenerational church? Simply put YES we are. We have people in their 90’s thro to less than a year old. When the children and young people leave for their Sunday morning groups about half the congregation goes out. We celebrate together.

  9. By accident or design? Probably a bit of both! In the late 90’s the church decided to employ a youth worker. Some 16 yrs later I’m still there! The church had a lot of young married couples who were in their 30’s, so for a few years we had a baby boom. But there has been a desire over the last 15 or so years to have an ethos of including families in the life of the church.

  10. A few mistakes and some successes! Mistakes! • Family Worship. • Being too trendy. • Trying too hard. • Excluding older people. • Forgetting that the church is for the not yet Christians. Successes! • Breakfast Church. • Legacy. • Encouraging. • Food.

  11. Wickham Festival

  12. Elemental Tent

  13. GET INVOLVED

  14. PERMISSION TO TAKE RISKS • Is this legal? • Is this unifying? • Is this heretical? (The answer should be ‘no’!) • “The seeds of heresy may come from outside the church, but they take root in her garden. Heresy is not unbelief” Heresy by Alister McGrath • Is this missional? • “Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God” David Bosch “Transforming Mission”

  15. Supers!

  16. Reflections and call to action Start Continue Stop

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