Adult Sunday Schools suggested in discipleship move
From ACNS:
The Church of England’s Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell, has suggested that churches should “renegotiate the Sunday contract” to include adult Sunday schools and eating together. The bishop made his comment during a plenary discussion on discipleship at the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting ACC-16, which is taking place in Lusaka, Zambia.
Churches, he said, should be “schools for discipleship” – and he had noted that this different “expectation” of what it meant to go to Church was evident in churches he had visited in the Anglican Church of Kenya and the (American) Episcopal Church.
“It amazes me that in England we go to all this effort to get people to church and then we let them go after an hour” spending more time “trying to persuade them to come back later the same day,” he said. “Why don’t we renegotiate the Sunday contract? What if we did Sunday differently like in Kenya? That might be best way of discipling people of God in the world.”
The ACC members were holding the plenary around a draft resolution which is expected to come before the Council on Monday. In its current form, it calls for a period of intentional discipleship throughout the Communion.
See also:
A review of “Intentional Discipleship and Disciple-Making” by Martin Davie
ACC Lusaka: Intentional discipleship document reveals understandings of what it means to be Anglican, by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream
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