But it meets in more than a hundred locations. Admittedly many congregations are used to calling themselves a church such as Christ Church, The Church of the Good Thief, The Pentecostal Church. Our aim is not to force people to change their name, only to clarify the language we are using. In addition to congregations connected with the various denominations there are dozens of other meetings of the one church in Kingston. They might meet for Bible Study and prayer in homes, nursing homes, penitentiaries.
Students meet on campus.
In some places school facilities and restaurants are rented. Using our terminology people do not quit church going if they move from regular attendance at one location to another gathering of Christians with the same or any other denominational label. We will consider the frustrations that arise from denominationalism in chapter 5. But already by our definition there are far less total church quitters than might appear from denominational statistics. Many of their members have moved to meet some other place in their own way.