As churches return to Christianity’s long, affordable tradition of using part-time clergy, laypeople must reclaim a larger share of the pastoral ministry at a time when they don’t know how and haven’t been expected to learn. Furthermore, the world has changed. Few have ample time or excess resources to learn lost arts, even if doing so would build up God’s kingdom. Congregations are used to relying on professionals to be at-the-ready providers of religious goods and services that they can no longer afford to commission on such a scale. Like consumers during a recession, they need to figure out
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