Setting Godâs People Free: the Apostolate of the Laity

Nigel Wright

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The Church of England is investing millions of pounds into its Renewal and Reform Program. The institution is determined to âempower, liberate and disciple the 98% of the Church of England who are not ordained and therefore set them free for fruitful, faithful mission and ministry, influence, leadership and, most importantly, vibrant relationship with Jesus in all of life.â Using Boschâs premise of the missiology task being to critically accompany the missionary enterprise, the author will utilize a hermeneutic phenomenology of his own setting as a leader in a local church and a task group member of a national learning community seeking to implement the recommendations of the program. A major focus of the program is an initiative called âSetting Godâs People free,â which seeks to equip lay people to follow Jesus confidently in every sphere of life, through a variety of initiatives and programs. Initial challenges include disseminating this program, a national initiative, at diocesan and parish levels. In addition, addressing the multiple generations of people with little or no language of faith and biblical and theological literacy severely challenged at a local level, is a significant challenge; as is church members who have little engagement with the Bible, worship, or prayer in their everyday lives, and who feel ill equipped to live out their faith in their daily lives. This chapter explores, by drawing on lived experience, the work being undertaken at a local level through a national initiative, and seeks to answer the question whether an inherited institution can respond to the call to rediscover the apostolate of the laity.

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Transforming Work

Missiological Perspectives for the Church in the World

Series:Â Theology and Mission in World Christianity, Volume: 30

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Print Publication Date:: 08 May 2024

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