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Another issue of ecclesial identity is provoked because the lay-led church is unhelpfully dependent on outside provision of clergy to give them communion. At worst, this is a return to Mass Priests. At best, it is a ceaseless reminder that such a congregation is in permanent dependency on those outside its life and is thereby somehow second class.

Church of England, network church, Birmingham, 20s-30s, city centre

Network church, café church, Bristol, Church of England

The massive subjective turn in society, growing diversity, greater importance of networks

Unity among different expressions of church, the mixed economy

A summary of the theological impulses behind fresh expressions