Soulspace can be used by people intentionally starting a new worshipping community, or by parishes that want to introduce a spiritual element to an existing outreach activity.
It's widely available on the Church Support Hub learning site, where all the downloads and suggestions for how to use it are provided.
It was developed to help Teams encourage their community to experience God's love through worship and to spark deeper conversations. It could even help Teams to create a pathway to a new congregation, moving them step by step to the 'Church' stage of the Missional Journey by:
- Adding a 10-minute optional spiritual extra to their outreach activity, using the short version of Soulspace.
- In time, adding in one of the sets of questions in Soulspace to grow the optional extra into a ‘church service’, with Welcome, Worship through music, Bible reading, Sermon in form of discussion, silent Prayer, Blessing.
- Then adding in Confession, short Creed and Lord’s Prayer to make it a Service of the Word (Soulspace will have suggestions for this in the New Year).
- Then adding a short Eucharistic Prayer (again Soulspace will suggest the Messy Church one).
- Eventually leading to a new congregation with full sacramental worship.
Please share your thoughts
The Greenhouse Team would love to know what you think, and what your Teams think, about using Soulspace in this way. Contact us to offer feedback/suggestions.