I think the original poster's point was that in its earliest days the Church had figures of authority and that Mr. Rutz's favorite notion - the "open Church" - has nothing to do with Christianity as it has been practiced from Scripture days until now.
And
"nothing to do with"
is a bald faced falsehood.
IF Holy Spirit is at all in the institutional church THEN the same Holy Spirit out in the hinterlands, trails, tree houses etc. of jungles, and other rural areas is leading people closer to God in both contexts.
And, that's the ONLY important commonality.
The rest is noise or necessary administrivia toward--hopefully toward--getting needs met; workers trained etc. And at worst, it's a LOT worse.
I suspect The Lord is going to teach you some startling things about the institutional church over the next 1-3 years. I hope you will listen to Him.