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Bath Deanery Everyone a discipleEveryone a disciple-maker
THE STORY SO FAR
DEANERYSYNOD
CONTEXT
CHANGE
CHANGE CHANGE
2121
2020
1919
1818
Peter Hill – Archdeacon of Nottingham30th October 2011
“I’m involved in the deployment strategy for the diocese and looking at where we put vicars,
clergy and mission leaders in the diocese for 2020, and just for your prayers, at the moment there are roughly 150 clergy in the diocese…
but by 2020, unless there is a serious miracle of ordination and vocation, there will only be 100
available to us. That’s a third less.And so, unless something changes we will be
placing lay people in charge of parishes before too long.”
HOW DO YOU FEEL?
Effie Clare Ludwell
NOT ALL CHANGE IS BAD
OPPORTUNITYOPPORTUNITYTO RETHINK TO RETHINK MINISTRYMINISTRY
TO A PROCESS
VISIONOur desire is to see hundreds more people drawn into discipleship and our whole community changed and transformed by God’s loving rule.
DISCIPLESHIPGo and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have
commanded you.
JESUS
DISCIPLELearner
Listener
Believer Trainee
StudentFollower
APPRENTICEHis disciples were with him in order to become like him
THE KINGDOMOF GOD
Our desire is to see hundreds more people drawn into discipleship and our whole community changed and
transformed by God’s loving rule.
RE-THINKING
WHERE DO YOU DRINK COFFEE?
COFFEE HOUSE
CAFES
CAFES
CAFES
CAFES
CAFES
SHOPPING
SHOPPING
SHOPPING
STATIONS
CAR PARKS
WORK
HOME
FRIENDS
FAMILY
CHURCH
ITS ABOUTTHE COFFEE
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAFE
ITS ABOUTDISCIPLESHIP
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CHURCH
We must be a transforming and transformative church that looks outwards to the community and to the world in which we are set. The mission of God is not only a higher calling than the maintenance of the church. It is the very reason for which God brought the church into being. Practically speaking we need to stop starting with the church and focus instead on God’s mission.
And this mission belongs not just to your parish priest, but to all of you who have been marked with the sign of the cross at your baptism. We are all called as members of the Body of Christ, priest and people alike, to be a ministering congregation to the communities in which we are set.
I WILL BUILD I WILL BUILD MY CHURCHMY CHURCH
YOU GO AND YOU GO AND MAKE DISCIPLESMAKE DISCIPLES
EVERYONE A DISCIPLE-MAKER
EVERYONE A DISCIPLE
EVERYWHERE A DISCIPLESHIP INVITATION
EVERY CHURCH A DISCIPLESHIP CENTREEVERY CHURCH A
DISCIPLESHIP COMMUNITY
PUTTING
DISCIPLESHIP IN THE
CENTRE
Growing LeadersDeepening PartnershipsDeveloping Chaplaincy
DEEP ROOTSDEEP ROOTS
ONGOING REVIEW
A ROAD MAPA ROAD MAP
PUTTING
DISCIPLESHIP IN THE
CENTRE
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE COFFEE