Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church

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The initial aims of reducing the 30 per cent of GP appointments that were for common MSK conditions and preventing acute patients skipping appointments were badged as ‘Covid recovery’. But early success won further funding, as Jayne explains. Wells gives considerable attention to the fate of the Jews. In this history, an enfeebled Nazi Germany is incapable of systematic murder on the scale of The Holocaust. However, Jews greatly suffer from "unorganized" persecution. Anti-Jewish pogroms happen "everywhere in Europe" during the chaotic 1950s. Then, in a world where all nation-states are a doomed anachronism, Zionism and its ambition to create a new state come to naught. In the later struggle between the emerging world state and its opponents, Jews are caught between the proverbial hammer and anvil. Following the launch of its antireligious campaign, the Modern State closes down all kosher butcheries still in operation, while the opening act of the "Federated Nationalist" rebels opposing the Modern State is to perpetrate a pogrom against Jews in the Frankfurt area. Eventually, in Wells's vision, it is the Modern State's forced assimilation that triumphs. The Jews, who had resisted earlier pressures, become absorbed in the general society and lose their separate identity. On the one hand, it was full of great ideas for the church to recover its missional impulse. I liked the encouragement to contextualize to local environs. Churches don't need to look the same. And I loved the ideas for making the church more organic. Often times this will mean smaller communities and shorter life cycles. And church growth doesn't need to occur only by addition, but also by the more powerful form of multiplication. And what if communities only existed for a season? Did that mean it was a failure?

The Shape of Things to Come is a 1933 Speculative Fiction novel by H. G. Wells, detailing mankind's struggles to survive and reach the future in the midst of global war and societal collapse. It is important to note that the missional church combines the concern for community development normally characterized by the liberal churches and the desire for personal and community transformation normally characterized by the evangelical movement. This blurring of the old lines of demarcation between theologies, doctrine, and ideology within the church makes the way open for much more integrated mission to occur. It’s like saying that we want to prepare like an evangelical; preach like a Pentecostal; pray like a mystic; do the spiritual disciplines like a Desert Father, art like a Catholic, and social justice like a liberal.”

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Physiotherapists have long been at the forefront of innovating to deliver more personalised and equitable services. Now two are pioneering an award-winning way to empower musculoskeletal (MSK) patients to self-manage with a simple app that cuts waiting lists and halves prescription costs. The original novel prognosticates World War II (though in the book the war lasts for a decade or more), which ends inconclusively but leads to large-scale societal collapse — not helped by a horrific plague which nearly effaces the human populace (in the book the 'history writer' claims the world population was cut in half).

How much of the traditional church’s energy goes into adjusting their programs and their public meetings to cater to an unseen constituency? If we get our seating (and etc ..) .. right, they will come. This assumes that we have a place in our society and that people don’t join our churches because, though they want to be Christians, they’re unhappy with the product.” (p35) Key public sector initiatives include the FCA’s regulatory sandbox, the development of Open Banking, the introduction of a mobilisation route for new banks, the forthcoming FMI Sandbox, HMT’s consultation on the regulation of cryptoassets and the provisions in the Government’s recent White Paper on AI Regulation. Wells's speculations, which may well seem absurd from a more modern point of view, can be much better understood under the impression of the establishment and attempted suppression of Islam in Turkey under Atatürk in the 1920s and 1930s. There is, bluntly, a misunderstanding here of the Bank’s position. We recognise very clearly the potential transformative effect on wholesale financial markets of tokenisation of financial assets, atomic settlement, smart contracts and other emerging technologies footnote [19]. Indeed, the Bill now in Parliament will enable us, with the FCA, to set up a sandbox in which developers can explore ideas like collapsing trading and settlement into an instantaneous smart contract.As set out in Money creation in the modern economy | Bank of England the majority of money in the modern economy is created by commercial banks making loans. Ben spotted an opportunity to give patients greater control over their care at a point early enough to improve outcomes – and even help people manage themselves off a waiting list. In regulatory terms, the tokenisation of bank deposits is a much simpler proposition than non-bank stablecoins. Bank deposits are already uniform, robust money in the UK – indeed they account for 85% of the money in circulation for retail purposes and are generally acceptable for wholesale transactions. We have a comprehensive regulatory regime, deposit insurance and resolution and insolvency procedures to protect bank depositors. Commercial banks settle between each other in Bank of England money which helps to reinforce uniformity. In a literary response to Things to Come, Rex Warner's allegorical novel The Aerodrome (1941) is, alas, little known. Its Air Vice-Marshal, who rejects the human world as it is... proposes the training of "a new and more adequate race of men": the Wellsian program exactly". Leon E. Stover, Science Fiction From Wells To Heinlein. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. ISBN 0786412194 (p. 45) Reinventing the church. … All the tinkering with the existing model of church that’s going on will not save the day. Simply making minor adjustments like replacing pews with more comfortable seating, or singing contemporary pop songs instead of hymns will not reverse the fundamental decline in the fortunes of the Western church.” (p53)

Dream – Belief – Goals – Structure – Mission (pinnacle) – Nostalgia – Questioning – Polarization – Closure (p218) This commitment has been made, for example, in public statements from Governor Andrew Bailey here, from myself here and here and Sarah John, the Bank’s Chief Cashier, here. H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come, a low-budget Canadian space opera first released in May 1979, presented itself as a sequel and adaptation. Apart from the name of two characters named "Caball" (named after Cabal in the film Things to Come), it has no connection with the film or book. [4] For the first time we in the West are living in what has been called a "post-Christendom era." Most people throughout the Western world have seen what the Church has to offer, and they have found it to be wanting. The current credibility gap has made it hard to communicate the gospel with clarity and authenticity. Paradoxically, this is the case even though it is currently a time of almost unprecedented openness to the issues of God, faith, and meaning. This is a time when the need for, and relevance of, the gospel has seldom been greater, but the relevance of the Church has seldom been less. If ever there was a time for innovative missionary effort in the West, it is now.In 2006, the Max Frost & The Troopers version of the song was used in an advertising campaign by Target Stores. The Shaping of Things to Come was one of the early warning cries to the Western church that the world we are responsible to engage with the love of Christ is radically changing. Though it caused discomfort, we had to face the truths expressed, and open our minds and hearts to what 'the Spirit is saying to the Church.' Though we still have much that needs shaping to become as effective as we need to be, the missional conversation has significantly transformed many of us." This book is what is termed as being future history and some say that it is an extension of HG Wells' historical text ' A Short History of the World'. It is suggested that what Wells is doing is using recent history to look forward to the next stage of human evolution. It is not the first time that he has done this, and in fact prior to World War I (which at the time was known as the great war) he had written some predictive texts such as ' The War in the Air' and ' The Land Ironclads', neither of which I had read at this time.

Because the missional church, by its very nature, exists organically within its host community, it has had to abandon Western Christianity’s dualistic worldview in favour of a whole-of-life spirituality.” (p37) the missional-incarnational church should be living, eating, working closely with its surrounding community, developing strong links between Christians and not-yet-Christians. It would be best to do this in the homes of not-yet-Christians and in their preferred public spaces .. but also in the homes of Christians. (p79-80) Specifically, Wein speculated that Wells' character of social scientist Gustave De Windt, with his blueprint for world transformation, had inspired Asimov's Hari Seldon. [6] As noted by Wein, De Windt and Seldon both conduct research at a prestigious library in the capital of a declining empire (respectively the British Empire and the Galactic Empire). Both realize that an overall collapse is imminent and inevitable, set out a detailed blueprint of how to rebuild the world/galaxy, and set up a body of dedicated followers (Wells' Modern State Society, Asimov's First and Second Foundations) which will implement the plan of the founding visionary for generations after his death. Further, Wein conjectured that Wells' "seventeen million active workers" tasked with a "Fundamental Knowledge System" containing "everything that is known" had inspired Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica. [7] the Canadian CHUM Charts for two consecutive weeks during the second and third week of October, 1968. [6] and #9 on the Canadian RPM Top 100. [7] The song remained on the US Billboard charts for a total of 12 weeks and on the RPM charts for 12 weeks. The audio drama production Big Finish Productions released a 2017 audio adaptation based loosely on Wells' book. It was adapted by Guy Adams, starred Nicola Walker and Sam Troughton, and was directed by Lisa Bowerman. This version presented the future history as an alternative timeline which Raven is shown, versus dreams, as in the original.The novel was adapted to film as Things to Come in 1936, and the title ( and little else) was appropriated for another sci-fi film in 1979. The novel also provided the title for an episode of Lost and the closing sequence of Caprica, amongst other Shout Outs in popular culture. Lensman Arms Race: One of Well's favorite tropes to begin with, this time taken to its grim Logical Extreme. These developments have been much hyped of course, and one could not say it was a certain bet that they will be as transformative as some have claimed. But some have already begun to find their way into conventional finance footnote [7] and there is a great deal of experimentation and development going on, both in the crypto world and in conventional finance. CSP heath informatics lead Euan McComiskie is optimistic that CSP members will continue to lead digital innovation across the NHS.