...or street or house... We have no affiliation whatsoever with the artificial unity group called "the local church". They have turned a biblical idea into a man made dogma.
Hi! 'Episkopos'
I half grinned reading about your preference to be recognized as attending a "local church".
The concept of this phrase had large import during the times when the writings of Watchman Nee and those similar were being introduced; perhaps as early as the early 70's.
When I was Managing Editor of a Christian Magazine, we found ourselves wrestling with this name formula for months.
Some were arguing that the magazine be direct and unforgiving with it's posture and plainly state the denominational separations as being "true" and/or "false".
But we concluded that this might be excessively divisive and accusatory.
In the end, we decided to formulate it as "cultural church" and "faithful church".
So, 'Episkopos', I like to believe that I don't belong to a so-called 'local church'. Rather, I belong to the 'faithful church'. :)