Celtic Prayer
Come I this day to the Father
Come I this day to the Son
Come I this day to the Holy Spirit powerful
Come I this day with God
Come I this day with Christ
Come I with the Spirit of kindly balm
God and Spirit and Jesus
From the crown of my head
To the soles of my feet
Come I with my reputation
Come I with my testimony
I come to you Jesus
Jesus shelter me.
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What 1
• Re-imagining church
• Narrative
• Prayer
• Developing a service
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What 2
• Won’t be specifically looking at
theology.
• Experimenting
• Connecting with God.
• How can this be used in
placement..can it?
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Church Re-imagined
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Where is this?
• They are distinctive informal • They promote friendship.
gathering places.
• They allow people to relax and
• They make people feel at home. unwind after a long day at work.
• They foster relationships and a • They are socially binding.
diversity of human contact.
• They encourage sociability instead
• They help create a sense of place of isolation.
and community.
• They make life more colorful.
• They invoke a sense of civic pride.
• They provide numerous
opportunities for serendipity.
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Third Places
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The Third Place
• A term coined by Ray
Oldenburg in his 1990 book The
Great Good Place
• Cafes, Coffee Shops,
Bookstores, Bars/Pubs, Hair
Salons
• Telecommuters
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Church & Third Place
Should we:
‣Develop third places in
churches?
‣Churches in third places?
‣Churches as third places?
‣None?
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Could Church be third place?
• Churches are distinctive informal • Churches provide numerous
gathering places. opportunities for serendipity.
• Churches make people feel at • Churches promote friendship.
home.
• Churches allow people to relax and
• Churches foster relationships and a unwind after a long day at work.
diversity of human contact.
• Churches are socially binding.
• Churches help create a sense of
place and community.
• Churches encourage sociability
instead of isolation.
• Churches invoke a sense of civic
pride.
• Churches make life more colorful.
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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church
Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church
Steve Collins
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Re-imagine Church
Go away and design a middle
worship zone for your church.
Don’t think outside the box...
know there is no box!
‘So what if the boundary were
complex, had many layers of
varying materials, were an entire
zone in itself? Supposing all we
do as church is actually inside
this zone, and the real inside is
something else? Supposing
church were the intermediate
condition rather than the point
of arrival?’
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Narrative
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Peter's Story
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Lectio Divina
Divine Reading
Praying with Scripture
Read
Reflect
Respond
Listen
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Your turn
✴Creation
✴Fall
✴Redemption
✴Restoration
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Prayer
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Confession Body Prayer
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How could you use prayer in you church re-
imagined?
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Your own
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Develop a
‘experience’
• As a group put together a
‘church re-imagined’ experience
that would meet non-churched
people from your placement
‘were they are at’.
• Us the in-between/third place
idea.
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Places to go...
• www.altworship.org.uk • The Book of Uncommon Prayer by
Steven L Case (Zondervan 2002)
ISBN 0-310-24142-1
• www.alternativeworship.org
• Alternative Worship by Jonny Baker
and Doug Gay ISBN 0-8010-9170-5
• www.smallfire.org
• Multi-Sensory Church - Sue Wallace
• http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/
- ISBN 1-85999-667-1
jonnybaker/
• Multi-Sensory Prayer - Sue Wallace
• smallritual
- ISBN 1-85999-465-2
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