"Churchianity" as 'anti-christ' (a false mediator between man and YHVH)
The "church" commands true Christians to "surrender" to its authoritarian control.
As if the church itself were the mediator between God and humanity.
The biblical truth is that "Churchianity" is an anti-Christ (the whore on the back of the beast).
Churchianity usurps the mediatory role of the Word of YHWH, which is Yahshua's good news of the Kingdom.
Institutional Christianity asserts a possessive, dominating mediation, (come to the state-registered church, follow the Pastor's teachings, confess to the 'Father' priest, etc.)
In contrast, the biblical message of Yahshua and the Kingdom operates as a cooperative, persuasive mediation in that it persuades us to live in hope ("faith is the reality of things hoped for") of the coming of Yahshua and the Kingdom, not as slaves to a religious organization but freely loving ourselves, one another and others as YHWH has loved one and all in his Anointed One.
The NT term "Ekklesia"
(properly translated "the assembly of the called-out-ones" but mistranslated "Church" in English versions of the Bible)
refers both to the supra-national and the local Christian community, which becomes visible whenever "two or more are gathered in [Jesus'] name."
The Ekklesia is not a religious organization, denominational or church congregation (though there may well be believers of "the Word" within all of them), but a community of faith, meaning that truly believing the biblical message automatically incorporates one into the community, apart from any organizational membership requirements.
- adapted from a statement by Robert Hach
