This teaching confronts both the individual believer, and the larger community, with the responsibility of stewardship.

Individual believers and house churches considered themselves part of a greater citywide church.

That, however, did not rule out demolishing churches and monasteries as part of broader systematization (urban planning), and state persecution of individual believers.

He wanted individual believers to become self-sustaining through their own spiritual growth, and he frequently discouraged programs and personality gimmicks that distracted from this objective.

Universal reconciliation, however, remains a popular viewpoint among many congregations and individual believers including many that have not at all associated with said church.