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CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEXT GENERATION CHURCH

(Download NGC: The Next Generation Church and

consider using the workshop materials - go to the store)

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the western church is still there for its people but its focus on the NGC model (download the book NGC: Next generation church off this site) shifts its emphasis profoundly for those gifted and called to face down the corporatist and liberal 'giants' within 'the problem'.

Services and other activities normally associated with churches continue, but the Church now has a definitive and overarching 'large cause'.  Using the 12 reforms as a platform for expanding opportunities for evangelism and discipleship the NGC is intent on mobilizing its natural champions for social action (see critical issues - definitions).  Loving our neighbour, remaining true to the great commission, finding social policy expression for Man made in God’s image and upholding the five core principles from within the Christian world view (CWV) is central to the churches vision.

As a natural consequence the church would become a countercultural force for transformational change (see critical issues - definitions) that will ensure the Judeo-Christian traditions of the West are preserved, while the enemies of those traditions – liberalism and corporatism are exposed and defeated.

NGC elders teach how to understand our times.  They make sure everyone is fully equipped to evangelise, disciple and answer the objections and false ideas of non-believers.  The NGC is countercultural salt and light in its community. That community knows it is being challenged by its local church to re-think the prevailing liberal-corporate world view and recognize the existential (definitions) threat western culture is facing.

A NGC becomes the conscience of its community and forces it to question the secular world view.  As a result many will begin to think in World view terms and come to the church for answers. The NGC restores Christianity to its central place in public square discourse and opportunities for the great commission expand greatly.