Yeah right. An invisible, disorganized, chaotic and scattered “church” led by men (all be they different men or women whatever the case may be) is somehow preferable?””
Local assemblies in fellowship with other theologically correct assemblies are indeed visible and not scattered. The Holy Spirit and the Savior do not leave us without guidance.
When an assembly goes astray, we cut it out like cancer.
In the Roman system, which was extracted from the Roman Empire’s structure and not Scripture, cancer is kept inside the assembly to spread.
I refer you to drug-fueled homosexual parties at the Vatican, cardinals and bishops of your hierarchy that support homosexuality, and pedaphile priests in seemingly every country who are supported, hidden and protected as they are shuffled into fertile fields of unsuspecting children. Even your hierarchical Pope (again not a NT church office) is a rogue leader.
In short, when the Empire system fails, but failures are coddled. In the Biblical system, disease is cut out to protect the assemblies.
“No thanks!” I’ll take the pattern of Scripture over a worldly system
It could be worse :