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Diocese of Portsmouth
Spiritual Formatio
n and Young People
Saturday 12th May 2007
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Spiritual Development in Young People
•Are they that different?
•Still with souls, that yearn, the capacity to wonder, and a search for identity and purpose in the world
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What is spirituality?
It is our heartbeat! It is our understanding and experience of how encounter with God takes place and hoe such an encounter is sustained. It is an affair of the heart!
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What is spirituality?
•Through encounter, we discover more of who we are in the world and under God.
•How can this be ignited in the first place?
•How can this be sustained?
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Spiritual Development Theory
•Fowler and Westerhoff
•Fowler - faith as a human universal and not specifically Christian
•Westerhoff defines spiritual development within a specific Christian context
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What is spirituality?
•Through encounter, we discover more of who we are in the world and under God.
•How can this be ignited in the first place?
•How can this be sustained?
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Spirituality
•So spirituality is inextricably tied up with experience
•Hay and Hunt and religious experiences
•59% rise since the mid-80s in experience and yet people only had the "vaguest remnants" of religious language with which to express the experience
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Spirituality
•An additional pillar to the church of today:
•Scripture
•Reason
•Tradition
•Experience
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Billy Connolly
"There's no such thing as bad weather…
only the wrong clothes"
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Our task is not to provide the next clothing, but a rack of options, based on listening to the market, in a different range of styles
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A Spirituality in which young people can encounter God where they experience Him in:
•Relationship
•Resonance
•Participation
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How have these worked in worship and spirituality with young people in the Peterborough Diocese?
The Story of
Critical Mass
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RELATIONSHIP
•Young people together, not too many adults
•From "Belonging before Believing" to "Being there, belonging, believing"
•Listening, openness, journeying
•Worship creates relationship
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RESONANCE
•With God
•With Self
•With the World
•Through issues
•Through discussion
•Through environment
•Multi-sensory approach
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The Eucharist contains key ingredients which makes connections with young people•Story•Journey•Participation•Visual: Imagery and Symbol•Multi-sensual•Food!
THIS IS A LANGUAGE FOR EXPRESSION AND
EXPERIENCE
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Defining our Terms
• What is a sacrament?• What does this word
mean to us?– An “outward and visible
sign”– “When God shows up”– A way God communicates
with us and vice versa
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Defining our Terms• What is a sacrament
– With young people we need a wider definition• William Temple “A
sacramental universe”• George Herbert “Teach
me my God and King, in all things thee to see”
• Making something different, making a statement/a stand
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Participation• From passive observers to active
participants• Experiential participation• Shared Story
• Discussion and engagement
• The numinous of symbol• Mystery and Encounter
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SummaryHow do we help the spiritual formation in young people?By helping them find a language for their expression and experienceBy being there in the searching, encouraging belonging and then belief