A Church Graft of … One

One strategy to re-purpose a church is to ‘graft’ in some new members from a younger/fuller/richer church to add resources and critical mass.

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There seems to be an accepted view that fifty new adults is around the number required to make a graft work.

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But if I were a bishop I think I would hope that every appointment of a new clergy person to a post would be a church graft …

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… of one.

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It should be, shouldn’t it?

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