who choose this sort of relationship to church. I sympathize with their frustrations with churches and the bothersome types of people who inhabit them. But the Christian life cannot be an individual affair. The church is necessarily plural. To say you “love Jesus but not the church” is to say you prefer a decapitated head. That’s creepy and doesn’t work biblically (see Eph. 5:23). We are the body of Christ. A head needs a body and a body needs a head. Though it’s true there are aspects of salvation