Seeing in 3D - Glimpsing the Future of the Church
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This document outlines the vision and values of a progressive Christian church. In 3 sentences: The church believes in living out God's reign through love, justice, fresh interpretation of the Bible, care for the earth, and joining God in healing the world. It seeks to build inclusive partnerships across differences and engage in nonviolent conflict resolution. The values expressed include theological reflection, the arts, spiritual practices, and hosting constructive theological conversation.
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1. Evangelism - Proclaiming forgiveness in Christ through public and personal confrontation with Jesus' message and mission.
2. Ministry - Helping people break bonds of oppression and restoring God's image through prayer, healing, and practical help.
3. Spiritual Formation - Helping people live a new resurrected life through teaching, study, disciplines and mentoring.
4. Love - Being a countercultural force through compassion, mercy, righteousness and justice locally, regionally and globally.
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This document provides a summary of the Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in 2010. The Commitment links Christian belief with action in the world. It calls on Christians to promote justice and peace, especially for the oppressed and poor. It highlights the need for effective action against issues like slavery, human trafficking, discrimination, and addressing the plight of migrants and marginalized groups. The global Church is called to advocate against injustice and inequality both in the world and within the Church itself.
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Presentation 1 of 10 is a summary of the Emerging Church as defined on Wikipedia. This is a summary of the 17 page article found there which is taken from many leading proponents of the Emerging Church here in America.
Presentations 2 through 4 deal with Leonard Sweet, a leader in the Emerging Church movement and a professor at George Fox University, and many of the nearly 50 books he has authored which express his various viewpoints.
Presentations 5 through 9 deal with the five main leaders of The One Project, four of which graduated with or started DMin degrees from George Fox University under the mentorship of Leonard Sweet. In each presentation an objective look is taken at material in print telling of each leaders work and ministry up to 2012. The question will naturally follow; is this the direction we should be leading our young people in the Adventist Church?
Presentation 10 deals with the One Project gathering in Seattle, February of 2012, looking at the claims of the Project “Jesus. All” and comparing this to what really took place at the gathering. Yes, there was some good points made, and we need to lift Jesus up, but…. We also take a look at a little of the evidence suggesting The One Project is a response to GYC.
For a fully interactive edition of all 10 presentations with video clips, contact: theemergingoneproject@gmail.com
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- 12. We believe in Jesus and the good news of the reign, commonwealth, or ecosystem of God, and we seek for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven by focusing on love - love for God and neighbor, for outsider and enemy. We seek to know, serve, and join the poor in the struggle for justice and freedom...through advocacy, relationships, and action. We seek to honor, interpret, and apply the Bible in fresh and healing ways, aware of the damaging ways the Bible has been used in the past. We seek to reconnect with the earth, understand the harm human beings are doing to it, and discover more responsible, regenerative ways of life in it. We seek the common good, locally and globally, through churches of many diverse forms, contexts, and traditions, and we imagine fresh ways for churches to form Christlike people and join God in the healing of the world.
- 13. We build inclusive partnerships across gaps between the powerful and vulnerable - including disparities based on wealth, gender, race and ethnic identity, education, religion, sexuality, age, politics, and physical ability. We engage conflict at all levels of human society with the creative and nonviolent wisdom of peacemaking. We propose new ways of encountering the other in today’s pluralistic world and we collaborate with other religious and secular groups in alliances for the common good. We host safe space for constructive theological conversation, seeking to root our practice in theological reflection and seeking to express our reflection in practical action. We value the arts for their unique role in nurturing, challenging, and transforming our humanity. We emphasize spiritual and relational practices to strengthen our inner life with God and our relationships with one another.
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- What I am talking about today is not what we predict will happen to our culture, leaders and churches...it has already happened. The seeds of the global shifts are already sown and growing in the most unlikely of places. What may also be true is that some of what we talk about today may make the most sense to us 10 years from now.