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Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique

Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique 124 Ecclesiology Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique 125 Article Review Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique ROLAND RIEM Ecclesiology 3.1 (2006) 125–139 DOI: 10.1177/1744136606067689 © 2006 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks CA and New Delhi) http://ECC.sagepub.com W hen Mission-Shaped Church was discussed at General Synod in February 2004 it received a generous welcome. 1 Introducing the debate at Synod, the Bishop of Maidstone noted that MSC was not so much new thinking as a report on the various ways in which church was already emerging from a fresh engagement with local culture. It did not attempt to prescribe, but did want to permit and encourage a wide variety of styles of church. This fitted well with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s often quoted statement that the Church must now operate in a ‘mixed economy’. The Archbishop himself commended the report at Synod as a ‘wonderful and comprehensive overview’. This review isn’t an attempt either to undermine the necessary, imaginative and courageous mission initiatives described in MSC, or to devalue the useful work of reporting and reflecting on it. MSC will rightly lead to a more entrepreneurial culture within the Church. It is, however, an attempt to address some of its http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecclesiology Brill

Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique

Riem, Roland
Ecclesiology , Volume 3 (1): 125 – Jan 1, 2006
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124 Ecclesiology Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique 125 Article Review Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique ROLAND RIEM Ecclesiology 3.1 (2006) 125–139 DOI: 10.1177/1744136606067689 © 2006 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks CA and New Delhi) http://ECC.sagepub.com W hen Mission-Shaped Church was discussed at General Synod in February 2004 it received a generous welcome. 1 Introducing the debate at Synod, the Bishop of Maidstone noted that MSC was not so much new thinking as a report on the various ways in which church was already emerging from a fresh engagement with local culture. It did not attempt to prescribe, but did want to permit and encourage a wide variety of styles of church. This fitted well with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s often quoted statement that the Church must now operate in a ‘mixed economy’. The Archbishop himself commended the report at Synod as a ‘wonderful and comprehensive overview’. This review isn’t an attempt either to undermine the necessary, imaginative and courageous mission initiatives described in MSC, or to devalue the useful work of reporting and reflecting on it. MSC will rightly lead to a more entrepreneurial culture within the Church. It is, however, an attempt to address some of its

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