Dr Eddie Gibbs, acknowledged as an international expert on the subject of church growth, has found, generally, mega churches are not the answer. Within a decade, internal friction at leadership level leads to their closure. However, because they had the best specialist ministries team, other churches in the area were closed leaving areas churchless.

We have the resources at all levels to produce the required result as demanded by Jesus in the Parable of the Coins, and are doing so in some congregations, but in others they are being deployed to produce the one coin result because of introversion. Let us have the magnanimity of outlook demanded in the Gospels, a Uniting Church collectively embracing change and 21st century spiritual and pastoral needs for all the family.