Christendom presents a confusing mass of different groups of people professing to be Christians and claiming to be “The Church” or “A Church,” each having varying forms of church government.

Some of these originated under the leadership of an outstanding personality or in an attempts to return to the practice of forgotten or neglected truth. Most of these churches have names which distinguish them from other groups and some are large national or multinational systems having a pyramidical structure, with “ordained clergy” answerable to a central ruling authority. A Christian who is seeking to find guidance from the teaching and examples of the New Testament alone will look in vain for scriptural support for this conglomerate of ecclesiastical profession.

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