Federal Vision: "I will be like the most High." (Is. 14:14)

"There is no Biblical blueprint for ecclesiology that is a standard equal to the burden that the Federal Vision and its doctrine of the covenant places on ecclesiology. If there is no invisible church, and the visible church—the “church with an address”—is the church, then there has to be a precise standard that defines it, and there have to be precise rules for taking people in and putting them out.

While the Bible does give guidance on the organization and government of the church, and on relations between individual churches, there is no blueprint corresponding to the ecclesiology that the Federal Vision needs. The explanation for this situation is obvious. The true church is the invisible church with whom the Covenant of Grace is made. Identifying, admitting and excluding from the invisible church is in God’s hands, not the prerogative of the elders. This ecclesiology does not depend on the precision and rules for the visible church that the Federal Vision ecclesiology cannot do without and must invent for itself."

http://www.contra-mundum.org/vision/ecclesiology.pdf