Traditionally the Uniting Church in Queensland has seen Congregational life as Church and Community Service as agencies of the Church. There has been some separation of Congregation and Community Service over the years, resulting in a greater emphasis on the congregation developing and rediscovering its mission on ways of surviving in the early 21^st Century. This has resulted in a form of implosion as the congregation tries to make it in the separated environment. This group should be seen as church in relation with the other two groups.

This sector of the Church is thriving in the delivery of identified need meeting outcomes. There has been some desire by the Congregations, Presbyteries, Synods and Assembly, to control the life of their Community Service agencies, one Synod spent considerable effort connecting word and deed to little avail. This group should be seen as church in relation with the other two groups.

There are many people in the community who hold the Uniting Church in high regard. They say, "If I was going to go to church it would be a Uniting Church". However they often do not want to loose half a Sunday going to a Service of Worship and its added extras.

When I read the New Testament it seem Jesus spent a good deal of His time among these people. This group should be seen as Church in relation with the other two groups.

Prior to the reformation God was experienced as much in the serving life of the Church as God was experienced in the worship life. God was not confined to the breaking open the word and the sharing of the Sacrament.

The Uniting Church would be rejuvenated in the early 21^st Century if it saw itself as these three groups in relationship with each other, rather than its close identification with congregational life.