“Yeah...I’m not interested in being “welcomed back “home””.
My home is in heaven.
I am not interested in fealty to any person or organization other than Christ himself.”
I have no problem with faith.
I have a problem with religion.
I agree...to a point.
I believe we a called to be part of A church. A local congregation or a group of congregations. And that we are to submit ourselves to their leadership. But that leadership is conditional and not universal.
I also believe in the universal church. The universal church as the world wide family of believers in Christ, not a hierarchy that claims fealty to itself.
I have a problem with religion.
Since Jesus Christ instituted His church (i.e. "religion," with all of the baggage of order and practice that comes with it), He obviously has a problem with neither.