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Originally Posted by Ohio
It's not about some "sense of a plurality of churches," but about holding leaders accountable who happen to sin.
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Yes and it only works within ones own church. Because there is a plurality of churches, holding leaders accountable who sin doesn't work. It doesn't work across denominations. For example, if you have an issue with a Catholic Priest what are the Baptist going to do about it? This is a practical reason for having one church per city.
It also highlights where ecumenism doesn't work. So Catholics and Baptists may join together for a service, but if the Baptist thinks the Catholic priest committed a sin (for example, praying to an idol) but the Catholics don't, then nothing that Baptist can do. The only effective thing the baptist can do is to stick with his baptist church.