This is truth. Suck it up. Apply it.

"...your argument seems to be founded upon the idea that God works through the Word to an individual in a vacuum. Union with Christ does not occur in a vacuum, it occurs in the sphere of the visible church." Spoken by a pastor of a Baptist church.

Got Romanism?

In this Christian's experience (oh, a word they hate) it occurs by the means of the word of God with the presence of the Holy Spirit. Your local 'church' can go to hell. And probably will.

And let's talk about your little 'visible' church. It respects persons (which God hates). It polices a fear of man (which God says a follower of Christ doesn't do but fears God alone). It puts a man in the place of the only Mediator between God and man Jesus Christ (yeah, there's a reason God tells us the only Mediator between God and man is Jesus Christ). It talks, and talks, and talks about anything and everything from its 'pulpit' but refuses (with secret delight) to proclaim the actual word of God pure and without asinine commentary from a fool with a piece of paper from something called a 'seminary' who doesn't know his ass from his elbow regarding the faith and the word of God and couldn't discern the truth if you put a gun to his fat head and doesn't value discerning the truth because it doesn't give him worldly pleasure to discern the truth.

Oh, what else? Oh, yeah, their little 'church' is more worldly than a house of prostitution, and that's how you like it, because, you know, you make yourself, a good upstanding 'family man', the standard. You're good you see because you slumped your little wife and had children, and we all know that the Bible says the faith is *all about family and marriage and backslapping at picnics when you get another one in the oven*, right? Because Jesus had eight kids and always talked about his wife and how the faith was all about family and mother and father and wife and kids, right? Put your corrupt, Romanist Bible down. Get out of your little devil-occupied building you call a 'church', get down on your chubby little knees, and ask God for forgiveness for all the time you've wasted and perverted keeping people away from the faith and the word of God. Enough with you useful idiots of the devil. Enough with you.