11-08-2017, 11:39 AM
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Location: Renton, Washington
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Re: The Vision of the Age, the Ministry of the Age, and the Minister of the
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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I think the ground of locality is a very biblical pattern, for example this verse says every place, not every denomination:
1 Cor 1:2:
to the assembly of God which is in Corinth, to [those] sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all that in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both theirs and ours:
Here, the apostle is pointing their attention to the Christians in the locality (every place), to divert their attention away from the narrow factions that were present at Corinth.
Every place in the province where Christians are is our place also. The expression emphasizes the position of Paul as the founder and apostolic head of Christianity in Corinth and in all Achaia. (Vincent's Word Studies)
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Is it a problem to have multiple assemblies in a given locality meeting on the ground of locality, but not having fellowship with each other?
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