For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
Churches are knit together not by any external bond, as of order, organisation, history, or distinctive doctrine, but by the vital relation of each to the one Lord of all, on Whom each is directly dependent, and to Whom alone each is directly responsible (74).