Of a truth...!
My friend, Here is another great truth... The “church” is an organism not an organization.. Romans 12:5, Eph 1:22-23, 5:30, Col 1:18 etc...
http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/lochurch/lochurch.htm
the apostles were appointed by Jesus, 12 to be exact, to carry out his mission.
so Jesus has many, many followers, but instead of relying on some sort of ‘community of believers’ he called out 12 specific indivuduals to guide his flock. Even in Jesus’ time there was a structured church. the church could not exist if Jesus had not been around to start it himself and he did, but he left it in the hands of Peter (Mt 16:13-19).
and you can see there was a church, with a specific structure of leaders that were called by God to lead the church. This is the Catholic definition of church.
Now, if the church is founded upon the leaders then it is safe to say that “the church” can also mean “the leaders” or “the one’s with teaching authority” called the Magisterium.
by the way, why did you change the scripture to say ‘a’ truth, when the word of God clearly says ‘OF’ truth.
You are radically changing the plain meaning of the word of God.
why?