Comes from Alan Knox where he takes on the idea of "Local or Universal"
It seems to me that the “local church” and “universal church” distinctions adds very little to our biblical understanding of God or of the church. Instead, it seems to divide the church into little groups that feel that they are maintaining unity in the body of Christ as long as they are united withing their “local church”. Meanwhile, it also allows believers to ignore the “one-anothers” of Scripture if the “one-another” does not “belong” to their “local church”.
I love it. I find that the "local church" has come to mean far more than the Christians in a given locality who regularly meet together and has become a self-defining and exclusionary term that divides "my church" from "your church". Can the church be healthy when we divide ourselves into doctrinal ghettos?
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