A few words about the word CHURCH
Black's Law Dictionary defines "Church. In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus the Christ to receive, preserve and propagate His doctrines and ordinances. It may also mean a body of communicants gathered into church order; body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of the same faith and the observance of the ritual and ceremonies; place where person regularly assemble for worship; congregation; organization for religious purposes; religious society or body; the clergy or officialdom of a religious body."
"...the religious society founded and established by Jesus the Christ..."
Who founded and established THE Church?
Was it Constantine who founded and established the universal Roman "church"?
Was it one of the States of the United States that founded and established under its laws of incorporation many different denominations of corporate bodies all using the word "church" to describe themselves?
What sovereign law giver, judge and king is it exactly that found and established THE Church, His Church? There is only ONE Church, all other corporate entities using the word church are apostate imitations founded and established by ruling authorities other than the anointed, lawful, dejure, King of God the Father's kingdom of heaven on earth, Yahushua ha Mashiach, the anointed, the Christ, aka Jesus the Christ.
Whose laws (ordinances) and teachings (doctrines) are the members of the religious society founded and established by Jesus the Christ is His Church supposed to receive, preserve and propagate? Rome's civil laws? Babylon's civil laws? The civil laws of the United States? The civil laws of the United Kingdom? The civil laws of the Emperor of Japan, the king of Sweden, the king of Saudi Arabia?
So if a corporate entity that is using the word church to identify itself but it is not receiving, preserving and propagating the true laws of Jesus the Christ, but is rather receiving, preserving and propagating the doctrines and ordinances of the ruling authority that founded and established it, can it truly be called Church?
I say no. There is only ONE CHURCH, and it was founded and established by a lawful King of a lawful kingdom that has exercised jurisdiction on this planet since the beginning. It never surrendered or left this planet. There has always been a remnant that has not attorned to the gods many of the earth.