You have been denied the greatest privilege a Christian can know, and you do not know it! Not only you, but virtually every Christian who has ever lived for at least the last 1700 years has not known of this loss.

Of what do I speak? This fact: Only the first-century church found its direction from the brothers and sisters. It did not find its direction from ministers, nor elders. The individual churches did not find their very existence and survival deposited in ministers. Counterwise, those churches existed by means of brothers.