Matt Greenwood, pastor of Western Suburbs Community Bible Church in Perth, is hoping that Sydney Anglicans pass a new law this week that will allow churches from anywhere to affiliate with the Sydney Diocese.

The Moore College graduate and former assistant minister at Gladesville and Normanhurst Anglican churches was forced out of the Anglican Church after being denied a parish in Perth due to his evangelical convictions.

So rather than give up his dream of gospel ministry on the West Coast, he planted a new church in the suburb of Mossman Park

"We are very happy with the way the ministry is going," he says.

"In just three months since we started, we have doubled in size to over 30 adults."

Mr Greenwood says there are three ways the new law could help further the ministry of churches like his.

Firstly there is the interchangeability of staff.

"It makes it a lot easier for us to attract staff in the future. There will be no disadvantage in people coming to us in terms of long service leave, etcetera," he says.

"But more significantly when it comes to replace the church planter, it will make that succession much smoother if we have interchangeability of staff with Sydney Diocese."

Another major burden on Mr Greenwood as he has tried to establish his church has been the time and cost involved in finding insurance.

"Obviously it would save us a lot of time if we could just pick up an insurance package from Sydney," he says.

"But you also have much greater purchasing power than we can manage.”

Lastly, Mr Greenwood believes being supported by Sydney Diocese will help independent evangelical churches further the gospel becuase it will lend them community credibility.

"It will lend us an endorsement to what we are doing," he says.

In June, Standing Committee appointed a committee to draft new church laws to allow congregations of other churches to join Sydney Diocese.

It was expected that new legislation may provide help to Uniting Church congregations in dispute with their national Synod over homosexuality, as well as independent evangelical churches such as Mr Greenwood's.

In August the committee held a conference to discuss the issue with 13 independent evangelical churches from NSW, Queensland, Western Australia and ACT.

It is expected the proposal will receive considerable debate on the floor of Synod, with even some of the senior leadership expressing reservations about the legislation.

Opponents of the bill are likely to argue that it will unnecessarily upset relations with the rest of the Anglican Church of Australia, thereby harming gospel ministry.