Justification for One City-One Church dogma?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by JJ

Could you or another long time poster point us to the best thread(s) on this topic?

I currently live in a city of 7,000 people within 10 miles of three much larger cities, only one of which has 'a local church'. I attend a 'community church' in one of the larger cities without a 'local church'. There are hundreds of churches within the county. It seems rediculous to think the one city with 'a local church' is the only city with 'the church' in it?

David Canfield (brother from Chicago area) wrote an article which started a thread called Regarding the Ground of Locality which prompted much good discussion. The post I linked before was an anon post on this thread which apparently was from an ex-member who had at one time espoused the teaching.

Igzy started another thread called "Canfield on the Ground of Locality" which also generated much discussion.

Did Igzy ever post his 3200 word rebuttal? Huh?

Anyways, those should be a great starting point. It is a topic which pops up on most every thread.