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Stuart & Sian Murray Williams
Saturday 05 November 2005
Saturday 05 November 2005
09.00
16.00
Seagoe Hotel- Portadown
£25 (£18 concession)
Event
The Centre for Contemporary Christianity invites you to this important conference exploring the theme of social and cultural change and its impact upon the witness of the church. We are delighted that Stuart and Sian Murray Williams will be with us to explore the theme of:
Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land
Post-modern, post-Christendom, post-secular, post-industrial, post-colonial ... how many more ‘post-’ words can you think of? These words signal a significant culture shift in western society. They don’t say much about where we are going, but they suggest things are changing and that we face new challenges and new opportunities.
How does this impact the church and its mission? Some are describing the situation of the church in western culture as an experience of exile, like that of the Israelites in Babylon many centuries ago. We no longer feel at home. Other stories and values are shaping our society. Many Christians are asking, like the exiles in Babylon, ‘how can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?’ (Psalm 137)
What is the gospel in this emerging culture? How do we tell our story? What fresh expressions of church may be needed?
Speaker biographies:
Stuart Murray Williams
Stuart spent 12 years as an urban church planter in Tower Hamlets (East London) and has continued to be involved in church planting since then as a trainer, mentor, writer, strategist and consultant. Currently he is chair of the UK Anabaptist Network and Director of Urban Expression, a pioneering urban church planting agency with seven teams in London and developing initiatives in Glasgow and Manchester. He has written several books on church planting, urban mission, emerging church, the challenge of post-Christendom and the contribution of the Anabaptist tradition to contemporary missiology.
Sian Murray Williams
Sian is Minister of Littlemore Baptist Church in Oxford and a Spiritual Director. Prior to that she was Director of Missionaries for BMS World Mission.
Contact the Centre for Contemporary Christianity in Ireland for details.
Howard House, 1 Brunswick Street, Belfast, BT2 7GE
028 90325258
events@contemporarychristianity.org
www.contemporarychristianity.org
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