NECESSARY . . .
ALMOST
as in necessary evil.
GOD INSISTS ON INTIMATE DIALOGUE WITH EACH BELIEVER. Institutions tend to muddy that, water it down and obstruct it rather than aid it as they were supposed to do.
Are you saying that the conference in Jerusalem, which seemed good to the Holy Spirit, was actually evil?GOD INSISTS ON INTIMATE DIALOGUE WITH EACH BELIEVER. Institutions tend to muddy that, water it down and obstruct it rather than aid it as they were supposed to do.
God created the Church. The Church is not His enemy. Paul and Peter and James were not working against God when they continued Christ's work of ordering the Church.
If being cooperative, subordinating your own desires for the good of the Church, and helping in a coordinated way is too distracting for someone, then their faith is not very strong.