A Church and Churches: Independence

What is the relationship between your local church and every other church in the world? In the companion piece to this article, I consider how different churches should integrate together. Here we want to ask what makes each independent.

Jonathan Leeman, a member of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, is the editorial director for 9Marks and the author of Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus and Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus (both Crossway, April 2012).