[dangus]

I’d say the problem isn’t the “organized” aspect of it, but the “disorganized” aspect. Man is openly flouting the rules, and there’s no institutional means of putting it right.

What’s the alternative? Non-denominational churches where the pastor makes up the rules on the fly as he sees it, and the whole congregation is like a boiled frog? Or do away with community altogether, and everyone just does their own thing anyway?

[Cronos]

What’s the alternative? Non-denominational churches where the pastor makes up the rules on the fly as he sees it, and the whole congregation is like a boiled frog? Or do away with community altogether, and everyone just does their own thing anyway?

I'm not sure Camping or Warren are any better.

[Rashputin]

No matter what non-denominational churches believe, they're a sure sign that Satan is winning. No church that consists of innumerable non-denominations each with slightly different doctrinal beliefs is anything but fragmented. No matter how loudly proponents of the One Invisible Church heresy shout, they cannot hide the simple fact that no where in Scriptures are "essential" and "nonessential" doctrines listed. Those who disagree in detail disagree, it's that simple. Either doctrine is irrelevant to non-Catholics or there are thousands of different non-Catholic churches, not a single church visible or invisible.

The only Church that answers Christ's prayer to His Father that His Church remain as One is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. A difficult fact for many non-Catholics to swallow (believe me, I know) but a fact nonetheless. And would anyone who claims they are Christian assert that the Father would not answer a prayer made to Him by His Son? The argument that there is a single, sincere, non-Catholic, Church that is His Church when you can't even count the number of variations in doctrine among those who claim to be part of the invisible church is absurd. Were the same claim made about any other group it would generate nothing but laughter even among those who argue long and hard that there is a single non-Catholic church.

The fact is that there is no alternative to the organized Church which is exactly why Christ founded His Church and promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. Scriptures call His Church His body, not a mob or a mass of free floating bacteria drifting in the scum of this world.