What does eating in a pub once a week have to do with the mission of God? This is a presentation on how Cafechurch seeks to participate in the Missio Dei.

1. The Mission of
Cafechurch
Luke 4:1-13

2. Jesus said to them again
‘Peace be with you. As the
Father has sent me, so I send
you.’ When he had said this,
he breathed on them and said
to them, ‘Receive the Holy
Spirit.’ John 20:21-22

3. Question
• React. What strikes you
about the passage?
• “As the father sends me,
so I send you.” What does
that mean?

4. The Missio Dei
Quotations taken from Mike
Moynagh’s book Church in Life:
Innovation, Mission, and
Ecclesiology

5. ‘in his act of creation, reconciling, and
redeeming, God gives himself entirely to
humanity’ (Moynagh 2016, quoting John
Flett)
The Mission

6. The Church
“the church, as communal life
with Jesus, is one of God’s gifts
to the world, and that it is in the
nature of this gift to be passed
on” (Moynagh 2016)

7. Participation
This mission also is a gift – the joy
and privilege of participating in the
divine extravagance that creates the
kingdom. The church, too, is a gift –
not only to believers, but to the world
because it announces the kingdom,
contributes to it and provides a
foretaste of it. (Moynagh 2016)

8. Question
• How does Caféchurch's little story relate to
God’s big story?
• Tell me a story about how you have
experienced Cafchurch’s mission
• How would you define Cafechurch’s mission?

9. According To The Website
Caféchurch is an open,
welcoming Christian community
in Melbourne; an emerging
church, a safe space for those
deconstructing and
reconstructing faith.

10. Our 4 Values
1. Everything is spiritual
2. Openness, inclusivity, acceptance
3. Authenticity
4. We’re all in it together

11. Question
• How do our values relate to
the mission?
• What do they reveal about
how we have instantiated our
mission this last 18 years?

12. Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Save us from the time of trial
and deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
now and for ever. Amen.

13. Go in peace;
may you carry God’s Wisdom,
speak forth God’s Word,
and embody God’s Presence
wherever you are.
In the name of Christ. Amen.