The sixth of a new series of special television debates.

Ludovic Kennedy calls Tom Williams, Q.C., M.P. to prove this proposition and Edward Gardner, Q.C. to disprove it.
Each side calls witnesses to substantiate its argument. The issue is debated before a panel of thirty lawyers and a specially invited audience.

Tom Williams, once a Baptist minister, argues that the Church as an institution is failing in its impact on its own communicants as well as on the world in general.
Edward Gardner contends that the Church, though capable of reform, remains the essential organ of Christianity.