Any good study bible with an appendix on the word "authority" ought to steer you in the right direction. Just "me, Jesus, and my Bible" is an attitude contrary to God's order. Children are under authority of their parents, and God's children are under authority of the church "parents". Read Paul's parting words with the Ephesian elders, how oversight it needed due to wolves lurking about that would not spare the sheep in the church in Acts 20:13-31.
Duly appointed church officers possess the keys. See the WCF 30.1 and 30.2 and proof texts associated therewith. I refer you also to the Heidelberg Catechism Question 85.
Sadly, Protestantism today is more about egalitarianism than about unity. Denominationalism run amuck, that obscures the unity of Christ. Even in the early church at Corinth, Paul had to spend six chapters in 1 Corinthians on the matter of disunity.
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Jesus did say I'm among the three so "me, Jesus, and my Bible" sounds like two. James White, in his book about sola scriptura, did express that we're not
that alone. The Bible alone is enough to tell us what salvation is and does and how the Elects get there. White went on to share that theres more involved. The Catholics are connecting people to their church as well as the Protestants. Both denominations are using more the two, "meism, Jesusism, and my Bibleism". AMR might be right on this subject.
AMR mentioned:
The Heidelberg Catechism
Question 85 How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by christian discipline?
How is the kingdom of heaven shut and opened by christian discipline?
Thus: when according to the command of Christ, those, who under the name of christians, maintain doctrines, or practices inconsistent therewith, and will not, after having been often brotherly admonished, renounce their errors and wicked course of life, are complained of to the church, or to those, who are thereunto appointed by the church; and if they despise their admonition, are by them forbidden the use of the sacraments; whereby they are excluded from the christian church, and by God himself from the kingdom of Christ; and when they promise and show real amendment, are again received as members of Christ and his church. [242]
AMR might mean nothing less than excommunication.
The unrepentant, stubborn, sinful, church member is to be removed from the membership list and is no longer a member of Christ's body. When the church takes this necessary but painful step it recognizes that "God himself excludes him from the kingdom of Christ."
So in this topic we questioned why Letsargue are having trouble with all denominations. True Churches may have excommunicated him and forced him to be "Me Myself and Irene" a multiple personality dude that forgets to take his pills. Perhaps God himself really does exclude Letsargue from the kingdom of Christ
AMR brings up a word,
Egalitarianism:
Egalitarianism, within Christianity, is a movement based on the theological view that not only are all people equal before God in their personhood, but there are no gender-based limitations of what functions or roles each can fulfill in the home, the church, and the society.
I've noticed that there is a fresh new denomination called the
Evangelical
Covenant
Order of Presbyterians, (ECO). They are a new split and separated from PCUSA. One of the the nine values listed at ECO are :
Egalitarian Ministry: We believe in unleashing the ministry gifts of women, men, and every ethnic group.
This explains why this "new reformed body " can't turn to PCA but I'm not sure why they can't turn to EPC (Evangelical Presbyterian Church).
Going off the subject a little, AMR, would you list where in The Westminster Confession of Faith, it talks about the subject of Egalitarianism?