Parish Share - Giving as Partners

I'm most grateful to John Richardson (AKA the Ugley Vicar) for pointing me to the 'Giving as Partners' sheet (which may be found here) on the Church Society website.

The billing:

The Church of England is an institution in crisis.  Contemporary pressures are mounting to change the Church’s practices and teaching.  At the same time, historical factors mean the leadership of the Church is rarely answerable to the ‘membership in the pews’.  In this crisis, money plays a key part.  On the one hand, the funds available to the Church are declining in parallel with the membership.  On the other hand, there are regular calls to ‘Quota Cap’ as a response to perceived abuses within  the Church.
‘Giving As Partners’ addresses these issues in a radical way.  Rejecting Quota Capping, it nevertheless offers a proposal that could change the Church by changing the way churches relate to one another.  Simple in principle, it would create dynamic mission partnerships that would improve the effectiveness of the Church whilst at the same time increasing the likelihood that Quotas would be paid in full.  This could
well be ‘an idea whose time has come’

Makes for some interesting reading - I'm about to embark upon the document and invite others, especially those who have commented on the earlier 'Parish Share' blog pages to perhaps do the same and see where this takeds our discussion.

Pax