If there is no local church, is it safe to say that there would be no church discipline? How do we use Matthew 18 in context then if there is no local church? Would the one another passages be more impactful this way or would they some how be deemed irrelevant? How would the local church not existing have an affect on this concept of discipline and engaging each other as believers? Sin would be far more rampant and how we address sin would look drastically different.