The Christian church started as an underground counter-culture and I suspect that it will return to that status before I die or shortly after. That does not bother me in the slightest.
God gave mankind the Law and Prophets to demonstrate how badly we needed a savior. After getting that ultimate grace, it took another 300 years for the “church” to become in institution and establish books full of rules on how to actually be saved.
God has no Plan B. We are living in Plan A. If that plan was to demonstrate how badly even the “church” could muck up the most beautiful love in existence, the love that sacrificed even for its enemies and deniers, that lesson will be happen.
We both know how the story ends.................