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Add to it that just because there are two or three Christians, or even 100 doesn't make it a church. There is more to the assembly than mere proximity. I have heard discussions about features that considered (by the speakers) as either very important, somewhat important, or not important in identifying a group as a church.

Some consider it in the context of differentiating between a ministry and a church. Or a mission and a church. All valid considerations.

Something like "an assembly of believers joined for the purpose of living and expressing the corporate aspects of the Christian life." Vague as all get-out. People could drive a truck through it. But something like that might be as close as we get to "defining" the term.

One thing is for certain. The definition is not an assembly of Christians who hold to the premise that all Christians within a geographical area that comprises a city are part of that one assembly, and who are under elders appointed by the leadership in Anaheim that are associated with the LSM . . . yada, yada, yada.

Wink, wink, nod, nod, say no more.