A New Heaven and a New Earth

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A New Heaven and a New Earth Bishop Wayne Miller Metropolitan Chicago Synod June 9, 2018

Hidden in Plain Sight! For Paul… the Old Era and the New Era COEXIST! We do not know the future of the Church… But we can pay attention! The signs are there!

Who are we? – Congregational Personality types Regional Mission Centers: Gather from everywhere; Love and serve local and remote mission fields Commuter Congregations: Gather disbursed historic members; love and serve disbursed historic members

Personality Types Community Congregations: Gather from local mission field; Love and serve local mission field; Congregation is an EXPRESSION of neighborhood Financially connected to remote mission fields through synodical and denominational “mission support.” This is the normative ELCA congregation.

New Mission Communities: Gather from ????; love and serve ???? Personality types Family Congregations: Gather those already gathered; love and serve those already gathered – limited resources for outreach New Mission Communities: Gather from ????; love and serve ????

In the new era… Commuter Congregations and Family Congregations will survive only as long as existing membership holds on. Healthy mission-driven New Communities, Community Congregations, and Regional Mission Centers CAN STILL GROW.

Strategic synod priorities Helping Commuter Congregations and Family Congregations become Community Congregations Helping Community Congregations become Regional Mission Centers. Helping Regional Mission Centers generate New Mission Communities

Strategic synod Priorities Turnaround Synod Initiative: Helping congregations become Community Congregations or Regional Mission Centers Affiliated Mission Communities: Helping Community Congregations and Regional Mission Centers GENERATE New Mission Communities Mission Endowment Structure: Converting assets into strategic congregational investment resources

Risk… Signs to watch for… No Bible stories of faithfulness without risk Risking the adventure of the unknown Risking the loss of the familiar

Cultivating Risk culture Adapt Learn Congregations of the New Era… Practice trying and releasing Celebrate calculated risk Learn from both success and failure

impermanence Lutherans build for ETERNITY! We live in a world of impermanence Innovation is the END not the MEANS Learning to enjoy creating and letting go

Mission expansion strategies

Attraction, Assimilation or generation Newcomers must make the first move and incur all the emotional risk Program attraction is getting weaker in a culture not seeking church Assimilation requires cultural homogeneity and devalues cultural diversity

Generativity not Assimilation New Era Congregations will not be single communities They will be organizations always generating… New Groups New Cultures New Missions

Gathered and scattered As our institutional or organization strength declines… More of our energy and anxiety focuses on how many and how much we gather.

Gathered and scattered The question people are asking is “How do I live life well?” They need the Church to encourage, shape, and support them “scattered” into the world

Baking a Bigger Loaf? Scattering More Yeast? What is public Church? Building a public organization with the power to impose values on society for positive transformation Scattering More Yeast? Forming and transforming lives and values to be scattered into every corner of society

Renewed emphasis on Vocation

Leadership! The Conditions in the Mission Field are beyond our control. Creative, Constructive Engagement with those conditions requires leaders equipped for the new era!

An Attitude of Gratitude