Joyful Anglican Church turning lifeless? (8)

I believe the answer is:

ecstatic

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'joyful' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'anglican church turning lifeless?' is the wordplay.
'anglican church' becomes 'CE' (Church of England).
'turning' says the letters should be written backwards.
'lifeless?' becomes 'static' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ce' backwards is 'ec'.
'ec'+'static'='ECSTATIC'

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(Other definitions for ecstatic that I've seen before include "Jubilant" , "Blissfully happy" , "in seventh heaven" , "Overjoyed, quite delighted" , "Joyful" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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