A New (Zealand) Way of Working

Darrell Holmes

Abstract The writer looks to New Zealand for inspiration from the ministry-led model widely adopted by the Baptist Union to discover a fresh take on the church meeting and church governance. Disaster Looms? As yet another round of statistics emerge on the formal membership of the mainline denominations, so we ...

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