If extension were just an alternative educational technique it would be woerthy of serious interest. But for one curious reason it is far more than that: it allows an entiretely new resources to be tapped for formal leadership, it allows the renewal, the building up of the church by means of an entirely new approach. It is not just a different way of hammering hebrew into students´ heads, it is a new way for the living church to deploy its real leadership. The real significance of extension is its ability to do a new thing in a new age.