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Grace Community Church is a non-denominational independent autonomous assembly of immersion-baptized professors of Biblically persuaded servants of Jesus, headed by Him alone and without any supra-local-assembly dictators. It is not an episcopacy and has no pretensions to earthly catholicism.
It is a good thing to ponder on John MacArthur's meditation here on what constitutes such a local assembly with firm doctrinal boundaries and a single Bishop (1 Pet. 2:25; Heb. 13: 20-21), John MacArthur ordained as His under-bishop tending and feeding this local flock.
Thank you, MM, for posting this thought-promoting devotion-to-Jesus encouragement of His sole Mastery of each constituent and Head of their unified autonomous local Christ-led temple of the Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19,20) as ordained by the inscripturated counsel of God's Spirit.
What? know ye not that your(plurality) body(the local assembly gathered) is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you-all, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your bodythe assembly, and in your spiritof the unified communing one-minded assembly, which are God's.Amen. Amen.