New Wineskins

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Foreword by John Tiller, Canon9 Hereford CathedraL
The rigidity of the Angliean parish system, argues Bishop Dávid Pytches, is a major hindrance for the church as it prepares to launch the Decade of Evangelism. The mobility of úrban and suburban populations, coupled with the ever increasing varié ty of styles of worship and churchmanship already make a nonsense of the principle of worshipping within the parish one lives in. Yet the principle of worshipping near to home is sound.
Church planting should be part of the agenda, which means working outside the existing parish system. In New Wineskins Bishops Dávid Pytches and Brian Skinner provide cogent arguments for breaking free from the existing boundaries and frustrations, and for relying increasingly upon the lay ministry, thus changing the role of the clergy. Their arguments are backed up with many examples where this has already been happening within the Angliean communion. Five appendices take matters into greater depth.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Foreword by John Tiller, Canon9 Hereford CathedraL
The rigidity of the Angliean parish system, argues Bishop Dávid Pytches, is a major hindrance for the church as it prepares to launch the Decade of Evangelism. The mobility of úrban and suburban populations, coupled with the ever increasing varié ty of styles of worship and churchmanship already make a nonsense of the principle of worshipping within the parish one lives in. Yet the principle of worshipping near to home is sound.
Church planting should be part of the agenda, which means working outside the existing parish system. In New Wineskins Bishops Dávid Pytches and Brian Skinner provide cogent arguments for breaking free from the existing boundaries and frustrations, and for relying increasingly upon the lay ministry, thus changing the role of the clergy. Their arguments are backed up with many examples where this has already been happening within the Angliean communion. Five appendices take matters into greater depth. Stephen Abbott on the Fellowship of Christ the King, Charlie Cleverley on church planting, Róbert Gardner-Hopkins on missions and church planting, lan Bunting on church growth in the North East and Dávid Huggett on frustrations within the current parish organisation.
Bishop Dávid Pytches and Bishop Brian Skinner
areVicar and associate Vicar of St Andrew's, Chorleywood - a large and flourishing church. Dávid Pytches is the best selling author of Come, Holy Spirit and Somé Said it Thundered. Vissza