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Warnings of Mysticism in the UK

From The Times : November 4, 2004

Spirited away: why the end is nigh for religion

Christianity will be eclipsed by spirituality in 30 years, startling new research predicts. Our correspondent reports on the collapse of traditional religion and the rise of mysticism.

In the beginning there was the Church. And people liked to dress up in their best clothes and go there on Sundays and they praised the Lord and it was good. But it came to pass that people grew tired of the Church and they stopped going, and began to be uplifted by new things such as yoga and t’ai chi instead. And, lo, a spiritual revolution was born.

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Emerging Church and Spirituality Shopping

from Emerging Church “Fresh Expressions” UK website (bold emphasis added):

Steve Hollinghurst, Researcher in Evangelism to Post-Christian Culture at Church Army’s Sheffield Centre, and Yvonne Richmond (Chaplain for evangelism at Coventry Cathedral) kicked off a national tour ‘Equipping your church in a spiritual age’ designed to help local churches engage with today’s growing interest in spirituality.

Mind, Body, Spirit

Last weekend, Steve was speaking on ‘discovering meditation with the Christian mystics,’ at the 10th Mind, Body, Spirit festival held in Manchester’s G-Mex Centre. This is the second biggest fair of its kind in Britain with over 15,000 visitors shopping for spirituality over three days. You will find herbal remedies, crystals, angel inspired art, past life therapy, spell-casting and various forms of spiritual and psychic healing.

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Emerging Mission Shaped Charismatic Church UK

from Emerging Church “Fresh Expressions” UK website (bold emphasis added):

In August 2004 my wife Jo and I moved to Exeter from London to pursue a clear call from God to start a mission shaped charismatic church. We knew one couple there who knew others who were eager to do something. Our first gathering was a party in a garden and then we found a place to meet in the old dry house on the quay opposite a nightclub. We launched ourselves properly as the Exeter Network Church, (ENC) in January 2005.

Our approach has been to develop an outward focused culture and wean people off dependency on traditional pastoral leadership.

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Emerging Church in the South West UK

from Emerging Church “Fresh Expressions” UK website (bold emphasis added):

More than 80 people from all over the south west peninsula gathered in Launceston to explore the implications of the fresh expressions movement for Devon and Cornwall.  Representatives came from churches as far apart as St Just in Penwith (near Land’s End), Paignton and east of Honiton. Pete Pillinger from the Fresh Expressions core team joined with Evangelism Enablers and Missioners from the counties of Devon and Cornwall and parts of Somerset and with Revd John Carne, Methodist Chair of District for Plymouth and Exeter.

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Emergent Church Tony Jones Emergence Christianity

At his Beliefnet blog Tony Jones tells us he is “a leader in the emergent church movement and a renowned expert on postmodern theology ….

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Fresh Expressions Defined Contemplative Sacramental Traditions and New Monasticism

Take a look at this May 2009 Fresh Expressions Book launch:

“Ancient Faith, Future Missions“

Fresh Expressions in the Sacramental Traditions & New Monasticism

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Fresh Expressions Global Movement Phyllis Tickle

Emergence Christianity Is A Global Movement

• United Kingdom – Fresh Expressions initiative Sept 2004 to present
• Ireland
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Canada
• USA

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Fresh Expressions Phase 2

The Fresh Expressions initiative commenced September 2004 and, is now growing ecumenically and internationally, consequently, Phase 2  of the fresh expressions initiative was launched on June 10, 2009 …

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, last night commissioned the team which will oversee Phase 2 of the Fresh Expressions initiative.

Dr Williams was joined by ecumenical guests at Lambeth Palace for a service celebrating all that has been achieved so far and offering prayers for the next important phase.

Bishop Graham Cray was commissioned by both Dr Williams and the President of the Methodist Conference, Revd Stephen Poxon as Archbishops’ Missioner and Leader of the Fresh Expressions team along with Revd Stephen Lindridge who is the new Connexional Missioner for the Methodist Church.

Other members of the core team were also prayed for.

Fresh Expressions, initiated by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Methodist Council in the wake of the Mission-shaped Church report, is gaining increasing recognition both at home and abroad.

Dr Williams said: “God has blessed our church through the work of Fresh Expressions”. The General Secretary of the Methodist Church, Dr Martyn Atkins, said he was delighted with the work of Fresh Expressions so far and that “the best still lies ahead.”

Earlier this month, the United Reformed Church with its 1600 congregations, 100,000 members and attendees and 700 ministers, joined the initiative.

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Fresh Expressions Mission Shaped Intro

Fresh Expressions website:

Mission Shaped Intro

Three Anglican, two Methodists, an Elim Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic church all joined to share a five-week Lent mission shaped intro course. This was a unique opportunity in Parsons Cross, Sheffield.

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