1. Mobile Phones in church

2. Discipleship in the 21 st Century

4. The Challenge of being a disciple of Jesus today The changes we seeThe changes we see The challenges this causesThe challenges this causes Our response to the challengeOur response to the challenge

5. The Changes we see Sunday mornings Percentage ‘in touch’ Spirituality

6. The Changes we see Sunday mornings

7. The Changes we see Shopping Sport Visiting family/friends Lie in Holidays Visiting the other parent

8. The Changes we see Percentage ‘in touch’

10. Percentage of child population in Sunday School UK, 1900-2000 ©UK Christian Handbook Religious Trends 2001/2001 No.2

11. Infant Baptism C of E 2007

12. The Changes we see Spirituality

13. Belief in God or higher power

14. Belief in God

15. Builders (born 20s+30s) in 2005

16. Boomers (born 40s+50s) in 2005

17. Gen-Xers (born 60s+70s) in 2005

18. Gen-Yers (born 80s+90s) in 2015?

19. “I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.” David Beckham. He was christened in 2005 with a traditional Christian ceremony in a private chapel constructed specially in their Hertfordshire mansion – with two Buddhist shrines at the entrance!

20. Teddy Bear challenge Church of the Sacred Teddy Bear Worship him for he is all hugging! Chesterton: When people stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything!

21. The Media Growth in TV shows on the supernatural, spiritual and paranormal – Growth in TV shows on the supernatural, spiritual and paranormal – –Fiction … supernatural, sea of souls, Buffy, demons, Hex, charmed, Sabrina the teenage witch, apparitions, treu blood, the vampire diaries –‘fact’…..haunted homes, most haunted, healers, Britain's psychic challenge, documentaries on mediums, Pagans, teenage witches etc Move from ‘Scooby Do’ approach where the ghosts are found not to exist to an approach where the balance is to believe in them Move from ‘Scooby Do’ approach where the ghosts are found not to exist to an approach where the balance is to believe in them Replacement of the priest with the medium, investigator or demon hunter. Replacement of the priest with the medium, investigator or demon hunter.

22. Experience of fortune telling, Tarot, astrology, psychics, palmists

23. The Challenge of being a disciple of Jesus today The changes we seeThe changes we see The challenges this causesThe challenges this causes Our response to the challengeOur response to the challenge

24. The Challenge of being a disciple of Jesus today What challenges do you face in being a Christian: What challenges do you face in being a Christian:  at work  in family  in community/society

25. The Challenge of being a disciple of Jesus today What is our response to the challenge? What is our response to the challenge?  as individuals (supported by the church)  as a church?

26. Three levels of mission community