Refusing to be Indispensable (L31)

Andy Griffiths challenges leaders to look to the examples of the early Church when it comes to how much of the ministry is their responsibility and to consider how others might get involved.  

Despite the pressures often placed upon them, today’s clergy are not required to be indispensable—doing all the ministry themselves—but rather to ensure the ministry is done.

In a time of cuts in clergy numbers, this timely study illustrates how incumbents can refuse to be central to church life, instead releasing and equipping their flock to do the real work of mission and service. Only then can churches become ministering communities, rather than communities centred on a minister.

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