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You do err. Not knowing the Scriptures.

1 John 2

1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

...[Verse inserted to show who John is talking to]

26These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

John's concern is not that people are not listening to the teaching of the church. His concern is that by now they haven't become teachers themselves. We are to teach. Yes. But we don't stay there as parasites taking in but never putting forth the least bit of effort to share the word ourselves. We have the Holy Spirit to guide us. That's us. The little children. Not a hierarchical structure. Christians. Believers in Christ. His little children.

John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

1 Corinthians 2:12-14 (King James Version) King James Version (KJV) Public Domain [A Public Domain Bible] [KJV at Zondervan] [Zondervan] 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

John 14 1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

25These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.

26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

Apparently, you think Jesus erred in sending His Apostles to Teach the world.

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

The CHURCH is the pillar and ground of truth. Nowhere does the Bible say the Bible is the pillar and ground of truth. As history reveals, and common sense nods in agreement, the Church preceeded the Canon of the New Testament.

Obey your prelates, and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief. For this is not expedient for you

*All of the New Testament must be read, not just cherry-picked to support the oral traditons of the protestant revolutionaries.

One of the biggest myths on the planet is that protestants know and follow the Bible. The fact is, they are slaves to the oral traditions of the protestant revolutionaries and they read into scripture (eisegesis) the oral traditions created to supplant the authority established by Jesus and they understand scripture in opposition to the orthopraxis of hundreds of millions of Faithful Christians.

Worse than being an enemy of the Church, the protestant revolutionaries were enemies of Christ Himself.