Good grief, BB.
You have an invisible Church but no visible Church. You lack an important part. Where do you go to "take it to the Church"?
Can you read Acts and the Epistles and entertain the thought that there is no authority in Christ's Church? No one with authority to say "this is the Christian Faith" and "not this."
What is the true Christian faith, BB? Where do you find that? Not in competing exegesis of Holy Scripture with each individual his own authority.
This fails in practice, obviously and massively. Jesus did not establish the Church as you see for this reason at least. It is not One. The Church, the Body of Christ *cannot* be One with your view of "church."
The evidence is all around us. If your view of church is true, Jesus was wrong - and it failed.
Q.E.D.
The only visible church you see is the person's who are believers. THAT is the visible church.
It's not a building, or hierarchy, or denomination.
It's PEOPLE. God dwells in people, not buildings any more.
Nope...We are to study the scripture while being taught...
2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
We are to accept the authority of the pastor only as far as he lines up with the scripture...We are not to take the pastor's word for anything...Why should we, we have what he is teaching us anyway...And we're also instructed to prove what he says is true...
1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
That's where you guys fail...And those that tend to 'prove' all things' seem to leave your religion...We're not instructed to believe all things the clergy tells us, but to prove all things...
You have an invisible Church but no visible Church. You lack an important part. Where do you go to "take it to the Church"?
1Co 16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
The answers are in the scriptures...