Local enough to assemble Local enough to govern itself Local enough to supply its own finances Local enough to observe the ordinances Local enough to baptize those who trust the Lord under the preaching of the gospel. There is no other church but a local church. The opposite of the local church is Universal Church. Among those who are not Roman Catholic, the Universal Invisible Church theory is prevalent. But this is not the case, because there is no such thing as a universal church.
All churches are local churches.
They are like cold ice and hot fire. This is the subject of the Body of Christ. Today the idea is that, even if the church is local, the body of Christ is universal and invisible. Let's notice four passages of scripture, and that is all the time we will have today. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular .