Robin Greenwood is Vicar of St Mary's, Monkseaton, in Whitley Bay. He was previously Ministry Adviser in the Church in Wales, and earlier was Director of Ministry in the Diocese of Chelmsford.

Being Church offers ideas and strategies, based on real experience and detailed reflection, on processes that offer support and challenge to church leaders and especially clergy, whether parish clergy, or diocesan advisers, or bishops.

Robin Greenwood

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Introduction

1. Finding how to be Church again: key virtues of a God-centred Christian community

2. God’s people on the move: genuine innovation requires a new way of seeing everything

3. A listening Church: learning from the wisdom of mystics and organizational theorists

4. Learning together: choosing cooperation rather than competition

5. Formed in the walking of Jesus: community formed in encountering and being healed by Jesus

6. From strategies to virtues: choosing and living practices to build the Church’s character and purpose

7. Grown-up Church: maturing through personal and corporate awareness

8. The unresolved dilemma: baptismal promises and ordination vows

9. Virtues and habits of churches and priests: taking responsibility together for being Church

10. Spirit-led community: growing in hospitality and love through sharing in the Eucharist

11. Open and pastoral: Church as the giving and receiving of love

12. Communicating: letting down barriers and being real

13. Integrating wholeness: being drawn by God’s Spirit in the whole of life

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Being Church offers ideas and strategies, based on real experience and detailed reflection, on processes that offer support and challenge to church leaders and especially clergy, in relation to the diocese and ecumenical relations.

Being Church offers ideas and strategies, based on real experience and detailed reflection, on processes that offer support and challenge to church leaders and especially clergy, in relation to the diocese and ecumenical relations. Through the guiding metaphor of Presiding the book shows how to empower the loas, draw out confident leadership, centred discipleship, mutual affirmation, a sense of being on a journey towards and with God, discerning local churches direction, sense of identity, and the courage to listen.

Based on real experience and detailed reflection Robin Greenwood looks at the nature and nurture of creating Church

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Being Church offers ideas and strategies, based on real experience and detailed reflection, on processes that offer support and challenge to church leaders and especially clergy, whether parish clergy, or diocesan advisers, or bishops.

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