The Bible is the record. The Church exists because of what is recorded there, not because of the record itself.
This doesn't answer my point - if you had no Bible, no inspired, revealed scripture which determines how we are to, among other things, organise the entities called "churches", then you would have absolutely no clue whatsoever what a "church" even was. Without that written "record", you would have no continuing church.
Jesus is the Word in flesh. The Bible is God’s Word. The Bible represents Jesus. The Bible is all about Jesus. The Church came about because of the Word.