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RENEWAL CHALLENGE

The CCVT Renewal Challenge reminded us that we could do better at building Communities of Hope and Compassion (that might just look like ‘churches’ we have known) demonstrated by a Community that:

  • Is actively changing the conversation from a ‘church’ conversation to a mission conversation.

  • Has mission as its priority, seeking to be an incarnational ‘contrast’ community and a witness, sign, and foretaste of the Kingdom in its neighbourhood.

  • Centres its life on the Bible and in particular the New Testament; reading it and discerning from it a picture of God’s Kingdom, the salvation story, and transforming spiritual practices.

  • Gathers and grows disciples of Jesus; lifelong learners with a developing spiritual maturity, evidenced by the fruit and gifts of the Spirit, each seeking to operate within the fivefold ministry pattern of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, and Pastor/Teacher of Ephesians 4.

  • Is becoming an ‘order of local missionaries’; engaging those who are yet to belong, confident of affirming and translating the story of God’s salvation through Jesus Christ in a variety of ways and contexts.

  • Invites accountability to one another; demonstrating the fruit of time spent in supporting and watching out for one another in love.

  • Seeks to name where God is at work in their neighbourhood and to join with him there, exhibiting an observable and graceful influence and impact.

  • Welcomes the stranger, demonstrating Kingdom hospitality and its message of grace and generosity.

  • Sees worship, prayer, discernment and learning as expressions of a gathering and sent Community, propelling people outwards to a watching and waiting world.

  • Practices justice and reconciliation as signposts of the Kingdom; revealed by a diversity of age, gender, race, ability, and socioeconomic identity, and by being a safe place for all people.

  • Actively discerns where God might be nudging a Community to be releasing and nurturing new Communities.

Monash
City

Church
of
Christ

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