Fight Local

It is actually something the people living in the most liberal areas of the country and in the most conservative areas of the country all agree on. Buy local.  That way you know that what you are buying helps out your neighbors and you also have a better sense of where it all comes from.

It seems to me the basic premise is not only serve us well for where we buy goods but also how we fight false teaching and practice of the church. Especially in our age of internet and social media,  it is so easy to fight false teaching and practice at the national level.  The word of an theological injustice goes out and soon it has reached every last corner of the globe.  It is easy to sit back and bemoan what is going on from afar.  But I would suggest that there are two main problems with this approach.

First, not being close means that you often do not understand truly what is going on.  You are relying on information relayed to you by one side of the situation.    And that means that often you do not have good understanding and therefore will surely not but the best construction on everything.

Secondly, if you spend your time worrying about every last national issue, you will almost certainly will end up ignoring what you could truly accomplish locally.  

Spend the time you would spend ruminating over the national crisis with a brother close to you that you are not reconciled unto on some matter of doctrine or practice.  Spend it putting time into a topic you will present at your circuit gathering.  Write a paper about something going on where you live to present to your district.

Oh yes, it is much easier to just complain from afar. It is much more fun to join a mass of people collectively mourning.  But it simply does not accomplish a whole lot. So if you want to fight false doctrine and false practice, let me suggest doing so locally.  Fight local.