The connection to God and His Christ lies within each individual human being, and Christ died in the way He did for the sin of each individual, without benefit of any church.
Any mention of any church is a simple reference to the custom of likeminded people to come together and worship.
The "church", not being an individual with a soul, cannot be the recipient of anything of the spirit, no attributes, no gifts nor authority other than those people who compose choose to award it of the bounty they get from the Holy Spirit.
From my observation, the church is in great error, and it is the error of arrogance and usurpation. It becomes your error when you invest yourself in its sin.
This is comical. You make a personal observation while I cite scripture, but somehow the arrogance is mine?