World-shaped Mission
Exploring new frameworks for the Church of England in world mission
Janice Price and the World Mission and Anglican Communion Panel
© The Archbishops’ Council 2012
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Contents
Foreword by the Rt Revd Mike Hill, Chair of the World Mission and Anglican Communion Panel
Part 1 – Theology and Practice for Mission
Chapter 1 – The Mission Imagination – explores the importance of how the church thinks about mission and how that affects its practice. Explores the Five Marks of Mission and holistic and integral mission
Chapter 2 – Partnership, Participation and Hospitality – a theology of mission focused on the mission of God in Christ and how the Church of England participates in God’s mission
Chapter 3 – Partnership in Practice – expressing partnership today in relationships between the Mission Agencies, Diocesan Companion Links and parishes with our partners overseas
Part 2 – Developing New Mission Practices
Chapter 4 – Mission and Development – charts the relationship between mission and development and suggests areas for development in relationships between the Mission and Development Agencies
Chapter 5 – Hearing from Our Partners – listening to the voices of the Church of England’s overseas partners
Chapter 6 – Receiving and Giving – explores the place of gift-giving and receiving in cross-cultural relationships and looks at issues surrounding accountability
Chapter 7 – Becoming Cross-cultural Christians – advocates a process for a greater awareness of cross-cultural issues in the dioceses and parishes as the way to move towards mutuality in world mission relationships
Appendices
2 – Common Mission: A Covenant
3 − Partnership for World Mission Conference 2011
4 – The Future Shape of Partnership for World Mission
In memory of Tom Heffer and Christopher Jones who, in their own ways, contributed much to this project.
Foreword by the Bishop of Bristol
I wholeheartedly welcome the publication of World-shaped Mission. It provides an important assessment of the journey the Church of England has travelled in negotiating our place in the Anglican Communion and the worldwide church in the last 50 or so years as well as providing pointers for the future.
It is the fruit of a three-year process that has been driven by the World Mission and Anglican Communion Panel together with the World Mission Policy Adviser, Janice Price. At the meetings of the Panel different perspectives have been brought to the discussion from the Anglican Communion and the global church, the ministry of both of our Archbishops, our ecumenical partners, the Mission Agencies, Diocesan Companion Links, the Development network and from the life of the parishes of the Church of England. World-shaped Mission represents a weaving together of these many and diverse perspectives.
The overall message of World-shaped Mission is that the Church of England needs to move towards a greater mutuality in world mission relationships through a process of giving and receiving that enriches all and enables the church here at home to participate in God’s mission more purposefully. No one is under any illusion about how difficult this is and the deep differences that can exist between churches in different parts of the Anglican Communion. However, it is a journey that we are part of by virtue of our history and that we shall be part of into our future.
One of the greatest strengths of World-shaped Mission is that it provides a process through which parishes are enabled to build their understanding of and engagement with the church globally for the purpose of enabling our participation in God’s mission here at home.
I am grateful to my colleagues on the World Mission and Anglican Communion Panel for their support and input into this process. Together, we are grateful for the wisdom, input, hard work and good humour of Janice Price without whose know-how and effort this publication would not have taken place. We are gratefully indebted to her.
I commend World-shaped Mission to the Church of England.
The Rt Revd Mike Hill
Chair, The Anglican Communion and World Mission Panel
Mission and Public Affairs Division of the Archbishops’ Council
World Mission and Anglican Communion Panel
Chair
The Rt Revd Mike Hill, Bishop of Bristol
Church of England representatives on the Anglican Consultative Council
The Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin
Elizabeth Paver
Partnership for World Mission Agency Members
Church Mission Society – The Rt Revd Tim Dakin (until February 2012)
United Society for the Propagation of