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Originally Posted by Freedom
Without some type of headquarters or authority structure, I don't believe the ground of locality could have been practiced at all. Everything falls apart the minute you have two churches in a city both trying to say they are the church in X.
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That may be the case if you want an LSM franchise in a city. There are cases of former LSM affiliated localities that go on without connections to a headquarters (Moses Lake, Rosemead, Toronto, etc). Of course as it's been discussed before only one can take the name as "The Church in ____".
Hypothetically take the Sandovals. They're not welcome in Vista because of the deputy authority hierarchy structure. Could always take the name as The Church in San Marcos. When LSM wanted to open up a franchise in San Marcos, they would need to take a different name or wait until the name became available.