Celtic Prayer

Come I this day to the FatherCome I this day to the SonCome I this day to the Holy Spirit powerfulCome I this day with GodCome I this day with ChristCome I with the Spirit of kindly balm

God and Spirit and JesusFrom the crown of my headTo the soles of my feetCome I with my reputationCome I with my testimonyI come to you JesusJesus shelter me.

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What 1

• Re-imagining church

• Narrative

• Prayer

• Developing a service

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What 2

• Won’t be specifically looking at theology.

• Experimenting

• Connecting with God.

• How can this be used in placement..can it?

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Church Re-imagined

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Where is this?

• They are distinctive informal gathering places.

• They make people feel at home.

• They foster relationships and a diversity of human contact.

• They help create a sense of place and community.

• They invoke a sense of civic pride.

• They provide numerous opportunities for serendipity.

• They promote friendship.

• They allow people to relax and unwind after a long day at work.

• They are socially binding.

• They encourage sociability instead of isolation.

• They make life more colorful.

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Third Places

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• A term coined by Ray Oldenburg in his 1990 book The Great Good Place

• Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars/Pubs, Hair Salons

• Telecommuters

The Third Place

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Church & Third Place

Should we:

‣Develop third places in

churches?

‣Churches in third places?

‣Churches as third places?

‣None?

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Could Church be third place?

• Churches are distinctive informal gathering places.

• Churches make people feel at home.

• Churches foster relationships and a diversity of human contact.

• Churches help create a sense of place and community.

• Churches invoke a sense of civic pride.

• Churches provide numerous opportunities for serendipity.

• Churches promote friendship.

• Churches allow people to relax and unwind after a long day at work.

• Churches are socially binding.

• Churches encourage sociability instead of isolation.

• Churches make life more colorful.

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Steve CollinsRe-imagine Church

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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins

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Steve CollinsRe-imagine Church

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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins

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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins

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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins

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Re-imagine Church Steve Collins

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Re-imagine Church

Steve Collins

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Re-imagine Church

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Re-imagine Church

Go away and design a middle worship zone for your church.

Don’t think outside the box... know there is no box!

‘So what if the boundary were complex, had many layers of varying materials, were an entire zone in itself? Supposing all we do as church is actually inside this zone, and the real inside is something else? Supposing church were the intermediate condition rather than the point of arrival?’

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Narrative

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Peter's Story

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Lectio Divina

Divine ReadingPraying with Scripture

ReadReflectRespondListen

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Your turn

✴Creation✴Fall✴Redemption✴Restoration

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Prayer

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Confession Body Prayer

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How could you use prayer in you church re-imagined?

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Your own

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• As a group put together a ‘church re-imagined’ experience that would meet non-churched people from your placement ‘were they are at’.

• Us the in-between/third place idea.

Develop a ‘experience’

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• www.altworship.org.uk

• www.alternativeworship.org

• www.smallfire.org

• http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/

• smallritual

• The Book of Uncommon Prayer by Steven L Case (Zondervan 2002) ISBN 0-310-24142-1

• Alternative Worship by Jonny Baker and Doug Gay ISBN 0-8010-9170-5

• Multi-Sensory Church - Sue Wallace - ISBN 1-85999-667-1

• Multi-Sensory Prayer - Sue Wallace - ISBN 1-85999-465-2

Places to go...

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