The Body United
These various individuals, families, small groups, cell groups, home churches etc. will come together as the "Local Body of Christ United" in one location space permitting periodically for fellowship, worship, ministry and prayer, and evangelism.
These various individuals, families, small groups, cell groups, home churches etc. will come together as the "Local Body of Christ United" in one location space permitting periodically for fellowship, worship, ministry and prayer, and evangelism.
- The Local Body of Christ will unite to access and address needs of a larger scale relating to needs that cannot be properly and adequately provided for and discerned in the smaller groups.
- This "Unified body of Christ will not be a governing Body as such but will serve as a tool to be used by the smaller members of the body to accomplish larger tasks.
- In the matters of decision-making and discernment of God’s will and direction for the Body, each individual will have a voice in matters concerning their individual group. At times of necessity the individuals will have the responsibility to unify their voices as one voice and offer this unified voice to blend with the voices of the other unified groups to assure and maintain unity in the Body at all times.
- Groups of different sizes will all have the same voice respectively and larger groups will not take precedence over smaller groups. This is not a democracy but a family.
- It is not desirable for a group to grow beyond their capacity "To love one another as Christ loved us." When this is sensed to be happening, another group will be formed from within this group.
- It will be the responsibility of the parent group to assure the stability of the offspring group in both spiritually and in matters of funding of the ministry.