Consequently, the glue that held the church together, the apostolic governmental function of bishops and patriarchs, was now discarded in Protestantism. This resulted in mass fragmentation, which eventuated in millions of independent churches and over thirty thousand denominations. Joseph Mattera

The truth is that if the Church is going to replicate the amazing Jesus Movement of the first few centuries of church history, it has to go from a “pastoral” model of church to an “apostolic” model of leadership. Joseph Mattera