{"id":57134,"date":"2017-01-22T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T21:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_c_of_e_needs_to_undergo_a_major_culture_shift_to_mobilise_lay_members_t\/"},"modified":"2017-01-22T21:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T21:10:01","slug":"the_c_of_e_needs_to_undergo_a_major_culture_shift_to_mobilise_lay_members_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57134","title":{"rendered":"The C of E  needs to undergo a major &#34;culture shift&#34; to mobilise lay members to share their faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England needs to undergo a major &#8220;culture shift&#8221; to mobilise lay members to spread the gospel in their everyday lives, a new report being presented to members of the General Synod argues.<\/p>\n<p>The report, entitled &#8220;Setting God&#8217;s People Free&#8221;, calls for Christians to be equipped to live out their faith in every sphere &#8211; from the factory or office, to the gym or shop &#8211; to help increase numbers of Christians and their influence in all areas of life.<\/p>\n<p>Laity and clergy should view themselves as equal partners in the task of evangelising the nation, it insists. The paper is a key element of the lay leadership strand of Renewal and Reform, an initiative from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, to help grow the Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2017\/2017\/01\/publication-of-general-synod-papers.aspx\">Read it all<\/a> and follow the link provded for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England needs to undergo a major &#8220;culture shift&#8221; to mobilise lay members to spread the gospel in their everyday lives, a new report being presented to members of the General Synod argues. The report, entitled &#8220;Setting God&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57134\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,440,437,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57134","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=57134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}