Background
For a wide variety of personal reasons, we know that a considerable number
of Christian and God fearing people have felt they no longer want to
associate
themselves with an earthly system of worship that, seems to many to have
betrayed much of the semblence of the spirit and way of Christ.
Not believing it to be the teaching of Christ, to organize his followers in any other way than in the common bonding of his spirit, spread equally amongst them, we cannot embrace the idea of any system, how good or bad it may be, that undermines the personal relationship that God is anxious to have with each of his children individually - unrestricted by any kind of earthly hiearchy consisting of men or women.
Most of us understand that there are powerful forces anxious to disperse and isolate the efforts that we may make, to strengthen our faith through fellowship with likeminded.
However it would seem that utilizing any available oppurtunity to 'assemble ourselves together', as Paul suggested in Hebrews 10, to encourage and strengthen each other in 'like precious faith' is an option well worth persueing!
This must be done carefully, and actively seeking to resist any tendency or suggestion to 'band together' in any other form, than by the spirit that the Lord would give us.
The thought of any form of 'new fellowship' or 'split' from another group is something none of us would wish to be involved in. Our purpose is to be true only to that which is from the begining.