Following Jesus on the margins: six subjects: two streams: three week-ends: oct09: feb10: july10
Christians across western culture are facing profound challenges and fresh opportunities. The long era of ‘Christendom’ is coming to an end. We now live in a plural society, with multiple religious options alongside the prevailing secular assumptions, in which Christianity has lost its position of dominance and privilege and churches are on the margins of society.
Although we seem to be declining in numbers and influence, this context offers many new possibilities – if we have the courage and imagination to grasp them.After Christendom investigates the opportunities, as well as the challenges, that the end of imperial Christianity presents.
Urban Challenge examines the dynamics of mission and ministry in multicultural urban communities, where Christendom has faded first.
Creating New Churches offers resources for pioneering new churches – and new kinds of churches – in emerging cultures, and renewing existing churches.
Restoring Hope asks how, in light of God’s mission to bring shalom (peace) to all creation, we can live towards that hope and create communities of peace.
Becoming Human explores the dynamics of discipleship in a multieverything culture and asks how we can become more fully human as followers of the Son of Man.
Jesus Unplugged imagines how we can re-tell the story of Jesus today in ways that connect with contemporary cultures.
Who runs the course?
The course is in Association with the Incarnate Network.
The course partners are:Urban Expression (www.urbanexpression.org.uk) recruits teams to plant new churches in urban communities and networks pioneers in urban contexts. The Salvation Army continues to develop a strategy of planting new churches and communities in some of the most deprived neighbourhoods within the UK. The hosts are Andrew Grinnell, Juliet Kilpin and Stuart Murray Williams, working with other trainers, especially from the Incarnate Network and other associated networks.
