{"id":55986,"date":"2016-10-14T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_shake-up_in_lay_ministry_aims_to_elevate_the_laitys_calling\/"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:00:42","slug":"church_times_shake-up_in_lay_ministry_aims_to_elevate_the_laitys_calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55986","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Shake-up in lay ministry aims to elevate the laity\u2019s calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The laity in the Church of England must be treated as equal with the clergy if the Church is to grow, a new report on lay leadership will conclude.<\/p>\n<p>The report, compiled by the Lay Leadership Task Group, was approved by the Archbishops\u2019 Council last month. It is to be presented to the Ministry Council on 10 November, when it will be made public, and will go to the House of Bishops for consideration with a view to its presentation to the General Synod in February.<\/p>\n<p>A C of E spokesman said this week that the crux of the report \u201cidentifies the need for two shifts in culture and practice\u201d\u009d which were deemed by the Archbishops\u2019 Coun\u00c2\u00adcil to be \u201ccritical to the flourishing of the Church and the evangelisa\u00c2\u00adtion of the nation\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2016\/14-october\/news\/uk\/shake-up-in-lay-ministry-aims-to-elevate-the-laity-s-calling\">Read it all<\/a>..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laity in the Church of England must be treated as equal with the clergy if the Church is to grow, a new report on lay leadership will conclude. The report, compiled by the Lay Leadership Task Group, was approved<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55986\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,74,389,437,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}