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All scripture quotations on the allbelievers website are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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IVP Study Bible, 3rd Edition (Oxford: Lion Publishing plc, 1996)

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David Watson, Discipleship (Sevenoaks: Hodder and Stoughton, 1981) pp18,20

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Richard Foster, Streams of Living Water (London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999)

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, trans RH Fuller (New York: Macmillan, 1963) p47

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A report prepared by a Working Group of the Church of England Board of Education, Called to New Life: The World of Lay Discipleship (London: Church House Publishing, 1999)

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John Tiller, A Strategy for the Church's Ministry (London: CIO Publishing, 1983)

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GS MISC 389, a publication of the General Synod of the Church of England, Christian Education and Training for the 21st Century - What are YOUR Priorities? (London: Church House Bookshop, 1999)

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MAH Melinsky, The Shape of the Ministry (Norwich: The Canterbury Press, 1992)

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Robin Greenwood, Practising Community (London: SPCK, 1996)

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In Luscombe and Shreeve (eds), What is a Minister?

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Called to Love and Praise; Statements and Reports of the Methodist Church on Faith and Order, Volume Two, Part One (1984-2000) p 47

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P McIsaac, The Role of the Laity in the Church, in ed Terry Charlton, Spirituality for Lay Christians (Nairobi: Pauline Publications, 2000) p 155

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Peterborough Community Church - Vision: Purposes (2001)

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GW Kuhrt, An Introduction to Christian Ministry (London: Church House Publishing, 2000)

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R Paul Stephens, The Abolition of the Laity  (Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 1999) pp132-2, 139

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Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, Faith and Order Paper III (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1982).  Quotations from pages 20 and ix.