Yea, now we have more churches than anyone knows. And the authority for all these churches is?
Why humble little Self and Self Alone folks who say, "Let it be enough for you, that all the multitude consisteth of holy ones, and the Lord is among them : Why lift you up yourselves above the people of the Lord ? of course.
Exactly what Jude warned against.
“And the authority for all these churches is?”
Jesus.
There is two Christian Churches, the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Protestant faiths are not churches. The Reformation ended that.