Your defective understanding of The church is the root of your errors. To despise the church that Jesus loves is to despise Jesus himself.
Disagree with you.
In many cases...a reference to "The church", is clearly, a reference to:
A building.
A denomination.
A geographical location the building sits.
A geographical location of a headquarters that puts forth the agenda for its denomination locations.
Disagree with you.
There was no indication of despise/hate toward "THE" "Church" that Jesus loved.
Nor despise toward Jesus.
The Church Jesus Loves, is a spiritual church,
that He "established".
It is not a brick and mortar building.
Jesus is the Head of His Church.
He
preparedthe foundation [/U] of His Church...
By First "teaching" to His chosen disciples.
Then
laid the foundation of His Church...
By Then "sending forth" His Apostals to carry on His "teaching" to other men.
Every other man "hearing" / "learning" is being
prepared as disciples, to FOLLOW Jesus' teachings.
Every
disciple can freely CHOOSE to become ENJOINED with Christ's "spiritual" Chruch.........or not.
A man who "chooses" to become ENJOYNED with Christ's spiritual Church, is thereafter, a MEMBER of Christ's Church.
Christ's Church is likened to the erection of a corner stone,
(Christ)
a foundation,
(Apostles)
a building up of stone upon stone,
(new members)
Christ is IN the new members.
The new members are IN Christ.
Regardless of WHERE geographically in this entire world, that MEMBER is;
That MEMBER is ALWAYS IN Christ, and Christ ALWAYS IN that MEMBER.
Should a MEMBER of Chirst's Church...
never set foot in a "man made" establishment the man calls a "church",
Has zero baring on that mans "MEMBERSHIP", in Christ's "spiritual" Church.
As FOR MAN MADE CHURCHES...
Most have a "headquarters" governing and distributing the directives of their churches.
They may all claim, JESUS is the "head" of their church.
That their church MEMBERS are also MEMBERS of Christ's "spiritual" church.
And "THEY" are the developers of their own "CULT" "practices" FOR THEIR particular churches.
The "CULT" "practices"...is simply "their SYSTEM"...of "WHAT' they have "determined" is an ACCEPTABLE WAY...
To Teach...devotion and venerations toward:
Christ, other particular figures, and/or objects
To Teach...traditions, requirements, obligations, protocols, rules, etc.
Jesus DID NOT Command, that EVERY MAN, Enjoining "HIS CHURCH", must ALSO Join in participating in a "man-made" Church.
Matt 18
[
20] For
where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Some people DO NOT agree with the "CULT" systems of man-made churches, and elect TO NOT "join" man-made churches.
That DOES NOT inturn mean, they despise Christ's Church.
That DOES NOT inturn mean, they despise
Man-made Churches.
That DOES NOT inturn mean, they despise Christ.
That DOES NOT inturn mean, they do not understand what Christ's Church is.
It means they DO UNDERSTAND what Christ's "spiritual" Church "IS"...
and DO NOT AGREE with obligating themselves to joining and participating in Man-made church cult systems.
Glory to God,
Taken