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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
And I totally get the idea behind one church one city, but the LC turned it into another division.
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The word "church" doesn't exist in the Bible. The Greek word "ekklesia" was variously translated, as assembly, meeting, congregation, gathering. By this understanding one could have multiple simultaneous ekklesia in a large urban setting. See, e.g. Acts 19:41, Rom 16:5.
With the passage of time, the idea of a standing body of believers apart from the temporal gatherings gained increasing attention. And it's not always clear in the NT where the second meaning is necessarily delineated. But in order to "totally get" the one church per city idea as Nee & Lee promoted it one has to oversimplify, and ignore these distinctions.