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A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH
Bishop Wayne MillerMetropolitan Chicago SynodJune 9, 2018
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• For Paul… the Old Era and the New Era COEXIST!
• We do not know the future of the Church…
• But we can pay attention!
• The signs are there!
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT!
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WHO ARE WE? – CONGREGATIONAL PERSONALITY TYPES
• Regional Mission Centers: Gather from everywhere; Love and serve local and remote mission fields
• Commuter Congregations: Gather disbursed historic members; love and serve disbursed historic members
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PERSONALITY TYPES
• Community Congregations: Gather from local mission field; Love and serve local mission field; Congregation is an EXPRESSION of neighborhoodFinancially connected to remote mission fields through synodical and denominational “mission support.”
• This is the normative ELCA congregation.
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PERSONALITY TYPES
• Family Congregations: Gather those already gathered; love and serve those already gathered – limited resources for outreach
• New Mission Communities: Gather from ????; love and serve ????
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IN THE NEW ERA…
• Commuter Congregations and Family Congregations will survive only as long as existing membership holds on.
• Healthy mission-driven New Communities, Community Congregations, and Regional Mission Centers CAN STILL GROW.
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STRATEGIC SYNOD PRIORITIES
• Helping Commuter Congregations and Family Congregations become Community Congregations
• Helping Community Congregations become Regional Mission Centers.
• Helping Regional Mission Centers generate New Mission Communities
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STRATEGIC SYNOD PRIORITIES• Turnaround Synod Initiative: Helping
congregations become Community Congregations or Regional Mission Centers
• Affiliated Mission Communities: Helping Community Congregations and Regional Mission Centers GENERATE New Mission Communities
• Mission Endowment Structure: Converting assets into strategic congregational investment resources
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• Risk…
• No Bible stories of faithfulness without risk
• Risking the adventure of the unknown
• Risking the loss of the familiar
SIGNS TO WATCH FOR…
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Risk
Adapt Learn
• Congregations of the New Era…
• Practice trying and releasing
• Celebrate calculated risk• Learn from both success
and failure
CULTIVATING RISK CULTURE
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• Lutherans build for ETERNITY!
• We live in a world of impermanence
• Innovation is the END not the MEANS
• Learning to enjoy creating and letting go
IMPERMANENCE
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MISSION EXPANSION STRATEGIES
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ATTRACTION, ASSIMILATION OR GENERATION
• Newcomers must make the first move and incur all the emotional risk
• Program attraction is getting weaker in a culture not seeking church
• Assimilation requires cultural homogeneity and devalues cultural diversity
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• New Era Congregations will not be single communities
• They will be organizations always generating…• New Groups• New Cultures• New Missions
GENERATIVITY NOT ASSIMILATION
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• As our institutional or organization strength declines…
• More of our energy and anxiety focuses on how many and how much we gather.
GATHERED AND SCATTERED
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GATHERED AND SCATTERED• The question people are
asking is “How do I live life well?”
• They need the Church to encourage, shape, and support them “scattered” into the world
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• Baking a Bigger Loaf?
• Building a public organization with the power to impose values on society for positive transformation
• Scattering More Yeast?
• Forming and transforming lives and values to be scattered into every corner of society
WHAT IS PUBLIC CHURCH?
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RENEWED EMPHASIS ON VOCATION
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• The Conditions in the Mission Field are beyond our control.
• Creative, Constructive Engagement with those conditions requires leaders equipped for the new era!
LEADERSHIP!
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AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE