Matt Rees - The Story of 'Home' (N20)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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We're carrying on our exploration of fresh expressions of church by having a chat with Matt Rees. Matt is an ordained priest in the Anglican church and leads a fresh expression of church in Oxford called Home.

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.3	On Nomad podcast this month, we spoke to the Archbishop of Canterbury about fresh expressions
0:20.9	of church. So we thought we'd carry on that theme by talking to someone who's actually
0:24.7	involved in a fresh expression of church. So it's a great pleasure to welcome to the show,
0:28.7	Matt Reese, who's a leader from a fresh expression in Oxford called Home. Hi, Matt, welcome to the show.
0:34.2	Hi, Tim. How's it going? Yeah, I'm good, mate. How are you? Good, thanks. Yeah, not too bad. It's
0:37.8	snowing here, but... Is it? I wonder if you could start by just telling us a little bit about
0:43.2	yourself and the fresh expression of church that you're involved in. Yeah, well, we started,
0:50.9	I'm Matt, I'm a priest in the Church of England, and we started home, what we
1:00.0	call home, I think it's about seven years ago now, coming up for seven years.
1:05.0	And that was something that, it was the days before pioneer ministers and all of that sort of thing. So I was at theological college with a kind of sense that I wanted to do something different,
1:18.0	but not really being too sure about what that meant or what that looked like.
1:22.8	So talking to my bishop, the bishop of Oxford, who was very permission-giving.
1:29.2	And really, we just found ourselves kind of put in one foot in front of the other
1:34.2	and taken a bit of a leap.
1:37.0	So instead of doing a normal curiosity, I ended up starting home alongside working with a conventional parish as well for some of my kind of extra training bits and pieces.
1:48.4	So, I mean, what specific things were going on that made you think that a fresh expression of church was needed?
1:55.3	Well, I think as a general rule of thumb that's run right through the last seven years or ten years, really, for me, is starting with where I am and, you know, could end up sounding slightly self-interested.
2:13.1	But my general rule of thumb is what would I like to go to or what would I you know what
2:18.2	would help me in my spiritual journey or what would help me to grow or what would what
2:23.1	would I connect with and and really kind of sensing that actually if it works for me
2:27.9	then there's a good chance it's going to work for other people as well so so really just
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