Even those who automatically are members of state churches undergo baptism and thereafter participate to varied degrees in the distinctive life of local churches. (religion-online.org)
The ongoing corporate life of the local church is not a muddle of atomic incidents connected merely by the regularities of church worship and organization. (religion-online.org)
Essential in itself to the worshipping congregation, the Eucharist also symbolizes a larger liturgy played throughout the whole life of the local church. (religion-online.org)