Cheer up, Justin Welby. The decline of the church isn't your burden

Justin Welby has said that church decline was something he “personally” counts as “failure”. Responding to the news, Phil Knox says Christians of all denominations should be seeking to encourage their leaders. Few of us can understand the deep challenges they're facing, he says 

Archbishop Justin Welby has presided over a difficult season for the church and society.

For any leader, a global pandemic, cost of living crisis, political turmoil, the threat of World War III and death of a monarch would provide a tumultuous landscape, but for the leader of the Church of England and Anglican Communion, it has increased the pressure to an already tricky tenure.