[Aquinasfan]

You confuse a church with The Church. Further, you confuse the spiritual Church of Christ known by God, not wrought by human hands, with a temporal institution of man corruptible by human nature.

Was Jesus confused too?

Jesus told us to take our disputes "to the church." He must have been speaking of the Church that he founded, a visible and doctrinally unified Church, because the converse makes no sense. It's nonsensical to take doctrinal disputes to an invisible Church, which promotes contradictory fundamental doctrines.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Jesus told us to take our disputes "to the church."

I think what he really meant was to take them to the Free Republic. :-)

[pjr12345]

He must have been speaking of the Church that he founded

Not likely. The Church hadn't been instituted yet. Do you think he might have been referring to (a) the local Jewish synagogue; (b) a local assembly of like-minded believers; or (c) an inflated bureaucracy of man, centered in Rome claiming to be his proxy here on earth?

I bet I know your answer!