>>9005518 (PB)

Two or three? Or two or three hundred (thousand)?

"The church" is anywhere 2 or 3 have gathered together. My wife and I around our kitchen table are the full number Jesus required.

I have no need of listening to Pharisees who, for a few dollars more, will misinterpret the Bible for me. I've heard them … many of them and for hundreds of hours … they, to a man, are braying asses. Balaam's ass knew scripture better than they do.

Take your "church as a business entity" on down the road. Faith is either intensely personal and based on a deliberate and open-hearted study of all the scripture (including the creation) or it is false.