Mark

Kay,

sorry i did mean chapter 16- thanks for spotting my mistake. NOne the less you didn’t answer my question where does it even talk about church in that chapter. Since you didn’t respond i’m assuming you relalise you were reading into the text a ‘church’ that was mentioned.
Interestingly about the Phillipian Jailer, Paul went back to his house aswell and baptised him and his household aswell. Was this church aswell? Was there then 2 churches within the space of a few days in Phillipi? One at Lydia’s and one at the Jailers?

I’m not suggesting a certain number needs to be present for ‘church’. But the activities we do in a gathered assembly is different to other situations and again Paul is addressing the gathered assembly.