Let me share a little bit of a Hymn some of you may recognize, “The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord...”
No one on earth, no human soul in heaven has anything to do with it. Not a single bit of tradition. No one to stand between me and my Savior.
It is Jesus Christ and me.
Yet she on earth hath union
With God the Three in One,
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won,
With all her sons and daughters
Who, by the Master’s hand
Led through the deathly waters,
Repose in Eden land.
Interestingly enough, the author (an Anglican minister and Oxford man) wrote another poem called "The Knight of Intercession". Make of it what you will.