Ground of Locality and Generality

[Norm]

I grappled much with the thought of one city one church after all the contention we passed through.

Once in a meeting I addressed it in this manner.

There is one church in the city. There are many fellowships within that one church breaking bread within the city, they gather according to their revelation from Christ. The particular fellowship we are participating in is a small fraction of that one church. We meet as we do because we feel we have received a particular commission from the Lord which we are to carry out in this city. We receive whoever the Lord has received into our fellowship, with no other requirement other than regeneration, and the members are free to participate in whatever fellowship they believe brings spiritual profit to them.

Basically we see the oneness of all the believers in this city.