• When do you have local church action? (continued)
    • When there are Christians living and taking action in a particular area?
      • Is geography the deciding factor? Are Christians automatically part of the church which assembles the closest to their residence?
      • Acts 9:26-28
    • When all local church members act together in spiritual work?
      • I Timothy 5:16
      • Acts 4:32-5:4. Note the difference between one’s own money, and that which has been given into a common fund. (See also John 12:3-6 – can you pilfer your own money?)
        • Acts 4:37 - “laid it at the apostles’ feet” implies that the money was under the control of the apostles. It does not mean that the money now belonged to the apostles.
      • Matthew 18:15-17
        • Collective: more than a plurality – it’s acting as one.
          • Singular:
            • One link of a chain
            • Christian
            • Matthew 18:15-17 – You
          • Plural
            • Multiple links of a chain
            • Christians
            • Matthew 18:15-17 – 2 or 3 witnesses
          • Collective
            • The entire chain
            • Local church
            • Matthew 18:15-17 – church
      • Philippians 2:25,30; 4:14-18. Note that Epaphroditus delivered the money, but the work was that of the Philippian church.
      • I Corinthians 11:17
      • Philippians 1:27