"the Church"
aahhh therein lies the problem
what worldly Christians define as The Church and what Jesus refers to as 'the church of God' are two (or many) different creatures.
I had to suffer working with Lutherans, who despite being really nice somewhat God fearing peoples, were battling wolves
who cause divisions over the ordination of women, and reinterpreting scriptures to suit their agenda.
I kept saying to them just put them out, and let these troublemakers do their own thing elsewhere.
But no they insist on embracing wolves within the flock and so all suffer. and they give wolves a voice in their synods and much
distress is generated.
The Bishops are at fault for not making a stand on the word of God and his teachings on this.
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover
is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Corinthians 5:
A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Galatians 5:9