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Can anything impact church culture and enable the kinds of changes that are needed for renewal?

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Can anything impact church culture and enable the kinds of changes that are needed for renewal?

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I believe so. I think many of our professional church leaders (of all denominations) are ‘corks that need to be popped’, discipling, developing and deploying every believer. This means thinking primarily in terms of sending out rather than gathering in, and focussing on making disciples who will make disciples, rather than focussing on controlling, managing, and all-too-often warehousing, believers. It’s a paradigm shift in overall church thinking, away from shepherd-sheep as the primary model of church. When I moved to Cornwall as a lay person, and a sister at the time in an Anglican Franciscan Third Order, (and also a Salvationist), I realised quickly there was no local network for people who were called to pioneering ministries of different kinds. There was a leaders network, but it was for clergy so far as I understand, and I wasn’t in any formal role in the church so was not involved. Neither were any of my friends who were lay people and out setting up new initiatives. So we set

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