The Guide contains how-to-do-it advice on starting, developing and sustaining fresh expressions of church based on shared experiences.
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The Guide contains how-to-do-it advice on starting, developing and sustaining fresh expressions of church based on shared experiences.
More about The Guide
As I write these words, we are nearing the end of Advent, a time of waiting and preparation, and looking ahead. Most of my preparation the last few weeks has involved editing, laying out and adding pages to Section 2 of Share: How might we start a fresh expression? If you've been eagle-eyed recently, you might have seen pages appearing and changing (and sometimes disappearing) each time you visited the site.
Here is a game to play with your home group, your PCC or over dinner with some Christian friends. You could even adapt it for a sermon. The aim is to help you think more deeply about what it means to be church.
If all we've produced is a nice-looking website with a few pretty pictures, then we've failed. The purpose of Share is to connect people so that they can share with each other – lessons learned, and mistakes made – both highs and lows in their work for God.
The story of fresh expression Come & Go is featured in a case study on Share. Now, if you want to know more, Come & Go is looked at in-depth in the latest edition of the Encounters on the Edge series of booklets. George Lings, director of Church Army's Research Unit, writes about this unique church service where it's normal, and even expected, that people will turn up late.
Share is a place for us to share our mistakes with others, our joys and successes, and to pool all the lessons we've learnt. Share relies on contributions, comments and suggestions from those involved in fresh expressions of church. If people don't share, then Share won't work!
