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...those groups...their own small group...In their minds...those believers...

And that is why all of Christianity eventually came to reside in Kentucky and even expand out to Tennessee.

Well, yeah!

After all, the local church is...local.

The Church of Jesus Christ is all believers everywhere throughout this age, alive or asleep in Christ, who have been given to Him by the Father in Heaven.

(But it is not clear from your post if you're referring to just wayward backwoods cults that are not in fact Christian.)

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There is, of course, a church that is only in your local neighborhood. There is not, however, a Christianity that is exclusive to any neighborhood. And it is about Christians that Jesus’ prays “...that they may be one.”