Being the People of God

Paul Bradbury is a pioneer minister, freelance researcher and writer, and a visiting tutor with the Church Mission Society and Ripon College Cuddesdon.Isabelle Hamley is Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge.Andy Smith is a team rector and serves on the Church of England Ministry Experience Scheme national steering group.

• List of Contributors viiIntroduction 1Paul Bradbury, Isabelle Hamley, Andy SmithPart I Being Worship1 Being Worship in the Making of Disciples 9Hannah Steele2 Being Worship in a Neighbourhood Ecology 22Al Barrett3 Being Eucharist 38Alison Milbank4 The Tender-hearted Community – Why Inclusion Means Interdependence 51Sharon Prentis5 Being Worship in the Parish 64Andy Smith6 Life, Death and Resurrection in Church Planting 70Sarah McDonald Haden7 Being Worship: To Proclaim Afresh in each Generation 75Isabelle HamleyPart II Being Witness8 Being Witness in a Global City 83Ana França-Ferreira and Angus Ritchie9 Being Witness to the Edges 98Jonny Baker10 Being Witness at the End of Modernity: Paradigm Shifts in Mission for the English Parish Church 112Nigel Rooms11 Practical Theological Reflection – Pioneering a Fresh Expression of Church on an Outer Estate in Southampton 125Jon Oliver12 Ecological Conversion and the Awakening from Earth Amnesia 134John White13 Being Witness: Mission in a Changing Landscape 140Andy SmithPart III Being Pilgrim14 Being Pilgrim, Being Parish 149Christopher Hodder15 Being Pilgrim in the Cathedral 166David Monteith16 Being Pilgrim in the Shadow of Empire 181James Butler and Cathy Ross17 Being Pilgrim into the Unknown 196Tina Hodgett18 Reflection: Garden Church, Norfolk 210David Lloyd19 Reflection: Being Pilgrim on the Margins 217Fiona Gibson20 Reflection: Navigating Faith and Identity: The Journey of Iranian Christian Converts in the UK 223Omid Moludy21 Editor’s Reflection 233Paul BradburyIn Place of a Conclusion 239Mike Harrison

This collection of essays, stories and reflections brings together two Christian imperatives which all too rarely encounter one another: ‘Being missional’ and ‘Having an ecclesiology’. The conversation that results is stimulating, provoking, and full of the Spirit of God. It has much to offer to pioneers, planters and fresh expressers, to pastors, liturgists and parish savers, and even to bishops.