[OBW]

I will make one adjustment to my comments on the "Universal Church."

When we acknowledge any Christian brother or sister; when we pray for all Christian groups meeting and acting both close by and afar without "praying" our agenda onto them; when these and other non-sectarian actions and attitudes concerning the whole of existing believers are in play, we do "touch" the church universal. But while this should always be our attitude concerning all believers, it remains that your real, live connections through an assembly of local believers is the only truly practical application of the church which is the body of Christ.