When do you have local church action? (continued)When there are Christians living and taking action in a particular area?Is geography the deciding factor? Are Christians automatically part of the church which assembles the closest to their residence?Acts 9:26-28When all local church members act together in spiritual work?I Timothy 5:16Acts 4:32-5:4. Note the difference between one’s own money, and that which has been given into a common fund. (See also John 12:3-6 – can you pilfer your own money?)Acts 4:37 - “laid it at the apostles’ feet” implies that the money was under the control of the apostles. It does not mean that the money now belonged to the apostles.Matthew 18:15-17Collective: more than a plurality – it’s acting as one.Singular:One link of a chainChristianMatthew 18:15-17 – YouPluralMultiple links of a chainChristiansMatthew 18:15-17 – 2 or 3 witnessesCollectiveThe entire chainLocal churchMatthew 18:15-17 – churchPhilippians 2:25,30; 4:14-18. Note that Epaphroditus delivered the money, but the work was that of the Philippian church.I Corinthians 11:17Philippians 1:27
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