However, value, meaning, belonging, community, are all locally derived and experienced. We need to ensure that energy is not wasted on battlegrounds between the two arenas, but to be clear about how the global can best serve the local and how the local can most productively influence the global. A Church which derives its vision of ministry from the Trinity will seek to hold both the particular and the global in unity and community. In a relatively short period of time all units of ministry should be in touch with each other electronically. Local and global boundaries should be examined to ensure that artificiality is not maintained and supported at unnecessary expense.
Many Diocesan boundaries are now as irrelevant and artificial as Parish boundaries.
As the local church is nurtured, its links with the Church Catholic must remain strong and appropriate, otherwise local congregations will become little more than self interested sects, with no sense of accountability to orthodoxy, let alone to the richness and diversity of the Church Catholic. Community - Institution Institutions are managed, communities are led. Institutions report what they have done, communities dream of what they would like to be. The Church of the future will be a church which continually invests in the quality of its leadership, both clergy and lay. It will be a church which has learnt to build community beyond institution.