Thank you Murray Robertson, Graeme Young and John Fuller for your insight and letters over the last couple of NZ Baptists on the growth and direction of the Baptist Church.

Three years ago I felt God was saying to me that He Himself was standing in the way of the Church going forward. It was a picture of the Church travelling along a road, but God Himself standing in our way, stopping us wandering forward.

If this is the case, our Heavenly Father will reveal the way forward as we seek Him, and the answer is not in better teaching, better planning, better buildings, and working harder (although He may ask this of us!)

– Donald Taylor
Auckland