A Radical Vision
The NSW Moderator has implored his church to start selling its underutilised churches, manses and halls and give the proceeds to the poor and disadvantaged.
Faced with dwindling congregations and conceding the church could all but disappear in 30 years, the Reverend Niall Reid says the church should let go of its “holy, sacred spaces as beautiful as they may be” and work to establish an “underground” community of faithful that connects with the spiritually needy in pubs, on beaches and in shopping malls.
His radical vision was presented at the NSW Synod’s annual meeting last weekend and comes as the church recently valued its property assets including schools and aged care facilities at $3.9 billion. With land, the assets of the church could be double that.
Read what the Sydney Morning Herald wrote on this here
