How do I find a faithful Biblical church daring to stand up for Truth in a dysfunctional society?

Jesus said He would build His Ekklesia (Matt 16:18). It doesn’t mean any of the characteristics that most anyone you know would naturally associate with a church. He didn’t say he would build a church building… He would have used the word ‘synagogue.’ He didn’t use any word to describe an institution or religious organization. He just said He would build His Ekklesia. And that’s simply a divinely assembled family that congregates together regularly to carry out the mission of our Heavenly Father – bringing Messiah’s Redemption to a broken world. Through that Ekklesia family, He brings all the attributes of His kingdom into the communities where we dwell. That’s why smaller is typically better. It takes time to develop relationships into a functional assembly of believers. They see one another as genuinely fitted family members of Christ’s body in a local congregation. They learn to love one another. As they discover how their unique giftings complement one another, they discover how to patiently mature together and share their burdens with one another. That’s what develops the characteristics that distinguishes, to the world of pagans around us, the sweet fragrance of agape love for one another. You don’t get that from a “church” that gets all its ques from an institution that must have strict conformity to a man-made system of by-laws. Yes, policies are necessary for any association of human beings… but when the local body of believers sees themselves as Messiah’s Ekklesia, devoted to following the Bible based heartbeat of the Chief Shepherd of their faith in Him alone, all the trappings of manmade “Christianity” become almost insignificant.

Americans Rediscovering their Covenant with God

America’s Declaration of Independence is a covenant document that joins member states together under a common frame of government. On a deeper spiritual level, the Declaration of Independence is a spiritual covenant between a people and their God. To state this concept of the spiritual covenant with God another way, America consists of separate sovereign independent member states that voluntarily joined under a covenantal framework of government as “One Nation Under God. “They,” the American people, as John Quincy Adams stated “were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledged as the rules of their conduct. They were bound by the principles which they themselves had proclaimed in the declaration.”

A Free society Requires a Righteous People who appoint Righteous Accountable Leaders

For Righteousness to regain dominant influence in America, or any society, ‘we the people’ must assertively refresh the spirit that ignited the founders to declare a new nation would be free by declaring their independence from tyrants. Just as that premise became the catalyst to fuel the American Revolution, can we really believe that a similar revitalization of Christian society can happen with any less commitment? Should not ‘We the people,’ as representatives of a civil society, also assert ourselves as a body of ‘we the people’ as members of Messiah’s Ekklesia? How can compromised leadership, on the level of civil government, result from anything less than compromised leadership on the level of Ekklesia government?