Another Thought on Re-Thinking the Status Quo Corporate Church of Today

"But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ." Matthew 23:8-10

R. T. France, in the Tyndale New Testament Commentary on the Book of Matthew, writes, regarding the above passage:

"...to recognize that Matthew records Jesus' creation of a new community does not entail reading into his Gospel all the institutional paraphernalia which the word 'church' tends to suggest to us. Indeed, when this Gospel is compared with the letters of Paul, mostly written before even the earliest date suggested for Matthew, it is remarkable how lacking it is in 'church' terminology. No church officers are mentioned..."