Gain a bird’s-eye view of Canada’s new cultural context and a different lens through which to re-frame the Gospel.
In spring 2014, more than 800 church leaders in 10 Canadian cities participated in the church leaders forum: "Shifting Stats: Shaking the Church."
Using the latest Canadian statistics and church research, Dr. Don Moore, World Vision’s National Church Ambassador, painted the picture of our new cultural and religious landscape. Bruxy Cavey, author and Teaching Pastor at The Meeting House, then challenged our thinking on how to not only present but also live out the Gospel given these new realities.
Since 2007, World Vision Canada has offered these half-day church leader events to serve the local church. We strive to offer relevant ministry topics and host a space for honest conversation and collaboration among local leaders.
Learn more about the forum at www.shiftingstats.ca
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2. Title
Don Moore
WV National Church Ambassador
• Former Professor of Education and founding
Dean of Briercrest Seminary, Saskatchewan.
• Served as Vice President for Leadership
Development and Care with The Navigators of
Canada.
• Led a national movement of 120+ national
leaders in Vision 2000 Canada under the
auspices of the Evangelical Fellowship of
Canada.
• MA from Wheaton College and PhD in
Education from Michigan State University.
• Author of two books and numerous published
articles.
10. As World Vision’s
National Church Ambassador
• keep a finger on the pulse of the Canadian
church
• track where churches are focusing their
energies
• observe how they’re responding to needs
in their communities - locally & globally
15. “The only statistic I can ever remember is
that if all the people who go to sleep in
church were laid end to end, they would
be a lot more comfortable.”
17. “The challenge for Canadian churches
remains what it has always been—to connect
with the felt needs of our neighbours.”
John Stackhouse
Regent College Theologian
23. immigration
• 40% of Canadians have a low
degree of religiosity
• 31% are moderately religious
• 29% are highly religious
{religiosity}
24. “… adults who previously expressed
unequivocal belief in God in the past
are not as inclined to do so now.”
Reginald Bibby
Author, Restless Gods
25. immigration
In 2011 - 43% of immigrants
reported that they attended
religious services at least once
a month in contrast to 22% of
native-born Canadians
43%
vs
22%
27. explore
How is your church responding to new
immigrants who are twice as likely to attend
church than native born Canadians?
What changes are you making to fully engage
recent immigrants in church programs and
leadership?
How can we creatively reach the 25%+ of
Canadians who declare no religious affiliation?
Share your comments at #shiftingstats
30. family & youth
1961 - 92% of families
contained a married
couple
2011 - this has now
declined to 67%
-25%
31. bfamily & youth
In 2011, 27% of
unmarried Canadians
had no religious
affiliation, compared
to 19% of married
Canadians.
27%
27%
32. “Because of the changing demographics,
I find that I have to explore the Bible with
new questions like what is a family and
how Scripture addresses singleness.”
David Johnson
President
Providence University College
34. family & youth
29% of Canadians born
between 1967 & 1986
reported no religious
affiliation as of 2011
• 20% Boomers
• 12% Pre-1946
29%
29%
35. In 2005, StatsCan found that one-third
(33%) of Canadians aged 15 to 24 had
never attended a religious institution,
compared with one quarter (25%) in 1985.
36. “… two distinct camps … teens who are very
religious and actively practice their religion,
and those who don’t believe in God at all. ”
Reginald Bibby
Author, Restless Gods
37. family & youth
• parents never went to church
• teens have never been in church
• vague idea of what Christianity means
{religiosity}
39. explore
How is your church focusing its ministry to meet
the needs of various kinds of families & singles?
How can we reach those who believe in God but
don’t practice that faith within a church context?
How can a church reach the third+ of Canadian
youth who have never attended a church?
Share your comments at #shiftingstats
41. finances, time & technology
• 2011 Christmas: Canadians spent over
$1.5 billion
• 2010 Giving: median charitable
donation was $123
{money}
42. According to new research released by BMO
Financial Group, Canadians spend more time
thinking about money than they do thinking
about their love lives!
43. finances, time & technology
Record household
debt levels of 163.4 %!
On average, Canadians
spend more than $1.63
for every dollar earned
{money}
163%
44. finances, time & technology
Median net worth of
lone-parent families
headed by a female is
just $14,000—the lowest
of any family type.
{money}
$14,000
45. finances, time & technology
In Toronto. from 1980 to 2005:
• poorest neighbourhoods suffered
a 6% decline in their incomes
• wealthiest neighbourhoods saw
their incomes increase by 63%
{money}
-6%
vs
+63%
46. finances, time& technology
• work increases; church & family fade
• workers spend 45 minutes less per day
with family in 2005 than 20 years ago
{time}
47. “As the norm becomes two-income
families, people are using their Sundays as
additional days to do other activities as
families, or regular or additional chores
that couldn't be done during the week. ”
Elaine Sauer
Bishop
Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario
Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
48. finances, time & technology
• two-thirds of Canadians visited social
networking sites in 2012
• biggest gains in use by 18-24 year olds
• next highest gain by 18 years and under
{technology}
49. finances, time & technology
• Canadian wireless phone subscribers number
over 27 million
• 7 out of 10 practicing Christian millennials
read Scripture on a screen
• giving, has for the most part, gone paperless
{technology}
50. finances, time & technology
• churches using cloud-based technology
report 75% increase in online giving vs
18% not using cloud based technologies
• nearly 50% of churches report using
cloud-based apps during worship
{technology}
52. explore
How has the financial health of your
congregation affected your ministries?
How do you minister to people who are
very busy & with limited time for church?
How is your church adjusting to new
technological innovations?
Share your comments at #shiftingstats
55. “When you cut through the noise, what’s
really at stake is how we remain true to
who we are in a world that is remaking
itself at dizzying speed. ”
57. • Awareness of a Significant Need – 1:1-4
• Acknowledge the Need for
God’s Direction – 1:4-11
• Authorization by the
Key Stakeholders – 2:1-10
• Analysis of the Situation – 2:11-16
• Announcement of the Plan – 2:17-18
• Answering Opposition – 2:19-20
Nehemiah’s Approach
To Change
58. There are churches in your community that are
thriving in light of the shifting landscape in Canada.
We’d love to tell their stories to church leaders
across our country through our networks.
Please recommend these churches using the page
provided in your portfolio and leave on your table
for us to collect later.
Thanks!
Help Us Tell The Stories . . .
60. Title
Bruxy Cavey
Teaching Pastor – The Meeting House
• Author of best-selling End of Religion
(NavPress, 2007).
• Teaching Pastor of The Meeting House, one
of the largest and most innovative churches
in Canada. Their tagline is “A Church for
People who aren’t into Church.”
• Bruxy’s engaging style, scholarly rigour, and
refreshing honesty make him a popular guest
on television, radio, and at university
campuses around the world.
• Teaches part-time at Messiah College in
Pennsylvania and Tyndale University College
in Toronto.
62. The Privilege of Partnership
Whenever God decides to do something,
his very next thought is,
“Now who can I do this with?”
63. The Church is called to be…
A community of WELCOME
A community of WITNESS
64. The Meeting House as a
Case Study of WELCOME…
Home Church
Compassion
Sundays – Q & Eh?
Team Leadership
On ramp opportunities
Third Way…
65. Renewing our WITNESS…
QUESTION: What written resources do
you use to connect non-church people
with the message and mission of Jesus?
67. Renewing our WITNESS…
Gospel = Good News
Greek = Euangelion (Latin = Evangelism)
Evangel Evangelism Evangelical Evangelistic Evangelical
Vs.
Salvation = Soteria
(Vampire Christians)
Luke uses the noun twice in all of Luke-Acts.
But he uses the verb 25 times.
72. Getting & Giving
THE GOSPEL
Three words…
Jesus is Lord.
Romans 10:9-10, 5:8; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6, 12:3;
Philippians 2:11
What does Lord mean?...
Luke 1:38 vs. 43
Luke 2:9 and 26 vs. 11
73. The Gospel is the Good News
of the KINGDOM…
Jesus
Matt 4:17, 23 // Mark 1:15
Matt 6:10, 33 // Luke 12:31
Matthew 9:35
Matthew 10:7
Matthew 13:19
Matthew 24:14
Luke 4:43
Luke 8:1
Luke 9:2 & 6
Luke 17:20-21
John 3:3, 5
John 18:36
Acts 1:3
Paul
Acts 14:22
Acts 19:18
Acts 20:25
Acts 28:23
Acts 28:31
Romans 14:17
Colossians 2:15
Colossians 4:11
1 John 3:8
Others
Matthew 3:2
Acts 8:12
Acts 14:22
Revelation 1:6
Revelation 11:15
Revelation 12:10
Kingdom of… God / Heaven / Christ / The Son / Light
77. Clues to Understanding
the Gospel
1. Meaning of the word
2. The people it attracted
3. The people it offended
4. How Jesus died
5. How Jesus lived
6. What Jesus taught
7. How Christ’s earliest followers
understood and applied his message
8. The big picture of Scripture
78. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHOW
His Love
79. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHOW
His Love
SAVE
From Sin
80. Atonement = At-One-Ment
KING
1. RANSOM – Christ fooled Satan
2. CHRISTUS VICTOR – Christ conquered Satan
PRIEST
3. HEALING (EXPIATION) – Christ changes our hearts
4. PENAL SUBSTITUTION (PROPITIATION) – Christ changes God’s heart
by taking our punishment and appeasing his wrath
PROPHET
5. MORAL GOVERNANCE – Christ shows us sin’s effects
6. MORAL INFLUENCE – Christ shows us how to love
7. NEW COVENANT – Christ ends the old (Temple, Torah, Tribe)
Genesis 4; 15:8; Micah 6:7-8; Psalm 40:6; Jeremiah 7;22-23; Isaiah 1:10-17; 66:2-3; Amos 4:4-5 ; 5:21-24;
Leviticus 5:11; 1 Samuel 15:22; Psalm 50:13; 69:30-31; 103:3-12; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hosea 5:6; 8:13;
Luke 15:11-32; Hebrews 8:13; 9:14; 10:1-10; Ephesians 2:14-16; Colossians 2:13-14
KALEIDOSCOPIC – All/Some of the above
81. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHOW
His Love
SAVE
From Sin
SHARE
His Life
82. Jesus Shares HIS Life With Us
“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me
and drink. Whoever believes in me,
as Scripture has said, rivers of living
water will flow from within them.”
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those
who believed in him were later to receive.
Jesus (John 7:37-39)
83. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHOW
His Love
SAVE
From Sin
SHARE
His Life
84. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHOW
His Love
SAVE
From Sin
SHARE
His Life
SHUTDOWN
Religion
85. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHOW his love
Rom 5:8; Lk 15:11-32; Jn 1:18; 3:16; 1 Jn 3:16; 2 Cor 5:19
SAVE from sin
Gen 1-3; Jn 1:29; Rom 6:23; 1 Cor 15:1-3; 2 Cor 5:21; Col 2:13-14; 1 Tim 1:15
SHARE his life
John 3:1-16; 5:24; 10:10; Romans 6:1-11; 2 Cor 5: 17, 21; Gal 2:19-21; Col 3:10
SHUTDOWN religion
Mk 15:38; Jn 17:3; Acts 17:24-25; 20:28; Rom 10:4; 12:1; 2 Cor 5:19;
Eph 2:14-16; 1 Tim 2:5; Heb 8:6-13; 9:25-10:18; Jam 1:26-27; 1 Pet 2:5; Rev 21:22
86. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHOW
His Love
SAVE
From Sin
SHARE
His Life
SHUTDOWN
Religion
87. The Gospel is the best news you
will ever get – God has come to
us through Christ to…
SHARE
His Life
SHUTDOWN
Religion
SHOW
His Love
SAVE
From Sin
88. Getting & Giving
THE GOSPEL
To him who loves us and has freed us
from our sins by his blood, and has
made us to be a kingdom and priests...
Revelation 1:5-6 (NIV)
90. These Church Leaders Forums, hosted annually in
cities across Canada, are presented by
World Vision Canada.
We do this as an act of appreciation, thanking
churches for their investment in transformational
development— work that we gladly do on their
behalf for communities living in poverty
around the world.
For more information:
www.churches.worldvision.ca
91. References for Don Moore’s presentation (Slides 1-58)
Slide 5
Lunau, “Youth Survey: Teens lose faith in droves,” para. 2.
Slide 6
Ladurantaye, “Canada tops globe in Internet usage,” line 3.
Slide 7
Statistics Canada, “Linguistic Characteristics of Canadians,” note 8.
Slide 12
Valpy and Friesen, “Canada marching from religion to secularization,” para.7.
Ibid., 1.
Slide 13
Romans 13:11-13 “Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is
nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness
and put on the armor of light; let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and
licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.”
92. Slide 17
Stackhouse, “Will Canada Be the Next Sweden?,”76.
Slide 18
Citizenship and Immigration Canada,“ Annual Report on the Operation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act 2011–2012,” 7.
Slide 19
Statistics Canada, “Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity in Canada,” 4.
Slide 20
Statistics Canada, “Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity in Canada,” 20–21.
Slide 21
Statistics Canada, “Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity in Canada,” 20–21.
Slide 22
Citizenship and Immigration Canada,“Annual Report on the Operation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act 2011–2012,” 4.
Slide 23
Clark and Schellenberg, “Who’s religious?” 4–5.
Slide 24
Bibby, Restless Gods, 7.
93. Slide 25
Pew Research, “Canada’s Changing Religious Landscape,” para.29.
Slide 30
Statistics Canada, “Census in Brief,” 1.
Statistics Canada, “Census in Brief,” 2.
Slide 31
Pew Research, “Canada’s Changing Religious Landscape,” para.13.
Slide 33
Clark and Schellenberg, “Who’s religious?” 4–5.
Slide 34
Pew Research, “Canada’s Changing Religious Landscape,” para. 9.
Lunau, “Youth Survey: Teens lose faith in droves,” para. 6.
Slide 35
Stunt, “Generation Y And Religion,” photo caption.
Slide 36
Ibid., para. 3
94. Slide 37
Valpy and Friesen, “Canada marching from religion to secularization,” para. 17.
Ibid., para. 18.
Slide 41
According to Statistics Canada, “Christmas by the numbers 2012,” during the Christmas season of 2011 alone, Canadians spent more
than $1.5 billion on TVs, audio and video equipment, toys, games and hobby supplies, computer hardware and software.
Turcotte, “Charitable Giving By Canadians,” 18
Slide 42
Kopun, “More Canadians worried about money than love,” para.2.
Slide 43
Statistics Canada, “National balance sheet,” para.9, reveals many Canadians are living far beyond their means; as a society we are
experiencing record household debt levels of 163.4%
Slide 44
Vanier Institute, “Money and the Canadian Family,” 7.
Slide 45
World Vision Canada, Poverty at Your Doorstep: Toronto 2013, 3.
95. Slide 46
CBC News, “Longer Work Day Cutting Into Family Time,” para. 2.
Slide 47
Longhurst, “The church family and changing demographics,” para. 20.
Slide 48
Statistics Canada, “Individual Internet Use and E-Commerce, 2012,” para. 15.
CBC News, “Canadians lead in time spent online,” para. 15.
Ibid., para. 16.
Slide 49
Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) “Facts & Figures 2013.”
Barna, “How Technology is Changing Millennial Faith,” para. 9.
Slide 50
Brandon, “Hallelujah!” para. 4.
Ibid.
Slide 55
New York Times, “Obama Outlines Calibrated Curbs on Phone Spying,” para. 13.
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