{"id":27875,"date":"2020-01-03T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27875"},"modified":"2020-01-03T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T03:23:53","slug":"anglican-ministry-of-truth-does-church-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-ministry-of-truth-does-church-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Ministry of Truth does Church Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Anglican Church of Canada is shrivelling faster than a slug in a bucket of salt.<\/p>\n

As this article<\/a> notes, churches are not only closing but merging. In Nova Scotia, for example, four churches have shrunk to one:<\/p>\n

\"\"A far more common practice for congregations struggling with mounting financial obligations, aging buildings, or dipping attendance numbers is the church merger. In recent years, many Anglican churches around the country have joined congregations with others nearby, or even with local Lutheran churches. In the diocese of Qu\u2019Appelle, a merger has been proposed that would see seven churches in the Regina area possibly amalgamated into a single congregation.<\/p>\n

In August of this year, the parish of St. Martin\u2019s in Chester Basin, N.S., merged its four congregations into a single church: Grace Anglican Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How to be positive about this? Call it the opposite of what it is! Church Planting is a scheme where a church multiplies and expands into areas where it hitherto had no presence. In one deft flourish of Doublethink, the Anglican Church of Canada has rebranded its radical contraction as \u201cChurch Planting\u201d:<\/p>\n

While the Anglican Church of Canada has very few home churches, Paulsen says that it is a growing category in other Christian denominations, along with church plants and new monastic-style intentional communities\u2014or a hybrid of all three, like the communities of the Move In Movement. She even notes a case of a Baptist church in the state of Washington planting an Anglican church inside an Anglican building.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Church planters] are actually really interested in some things that Anglicans have to offer,\u201d she says. \u201cThey don\u2019t really need our buildings, but what they like is\u2026our broad orthodoxy. They like that we\u2019re creedal, they like that we are part of a worldwide communion. They like that we have a deep historical rootedness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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