Buildings ‘eat up money’

Julie Christie (Letters, March 3) notes how Episcopal Church authorities have not given parishioners a fair hearing on Argyll region changes.

The bare sacramental elements (water, wine and bread) are not expensive. But buildings, clerical wages and clergy pension funds just eat up money. Scottish Episcopalians (and other Anglicans) have a future, but we maybe need a time of pruning clergy numbers and buildings.

Our first love and focus must be on Our Lord: not a pharisaical institution. Will the Church of the future be based around informal home meetings, prayer and Bible study?

J T Hardy, by email.