Step 8

In Reimagining Ministry, we have been exploring what it means to become a lay-led church. We have been discovering that it requires a seismic change in the way we are used to thinking about church and doing church. For centuries, the Church of England has expected the clergy to supply all the leadership in their parish and to take all the key decisions and shoulder all the responsibility. Now, however, we are rediscovering the truth that all God’s people are called to work with him in mission, and this means a move from dependence on the clergy to the much more mature position of interdependence.

In Step 8, you are encouraged to apply all that you have learned to your own situation and to discern how you will work together to take your churches’ life and witness into the future.