Additional Quotes about the Local Church by Witness Lee and Watchman Nee

In order to exist among mankind, this church is scattered over all the earth to become the many separate local churches. Each one has its elders for administration and its deacons for service. In business affairs the churches are independent and separate, but in life and nature they are still one universal Body, receiving the same apostles’ teaching, maintaining the one apostles’ fellowship, and bearing the one testimony for Christ for the accomplishment of God’s one plan (economy).

(Watchman Nee, Collected Works, Set 1, Vol. 1, 34-35)