‘Key limiting factors’: the end of stipendiary parish ministry – Archbishop Cranmer July 11, 2021 by Fulcrum Priests are expensive. Church buildings are expensive. Theological formation is expensive. So the Church of England has set out its 'Vision and Stragey' for cost-cutting: 10,000 new lay-led churches over the next 10 years, to make one million new disciples for Christ. Far better to bring Jesus to the local school or village hall, where the people are, and have them led by ordinary people, like most people are, than to try to sustain a model of church which is, to speak candidly, unsustainable. Archbishop Cranmer website. 3 July 2021 FulcrumShareTweetShare
