Assuming that a specially appointed angel watches over each local church that heaven recognizes as legitimate, let us then continue the line of thought experiments from the last post with questions such as the following:

1. If the local Baptist and Presbyterian church don’t get along or—just as likely—one type of Baptists don’t get along with another type of Baptists, and likewise with the Presbys, then does Heaven concede to their disunity and send a different angels to the differing groups in the city? Or is there just one angel for the whole city who bemoans the factions within “his” allotted churches?
2. Or, does Heaven recognize at most one congregation per city, or one united network of congregations in a large city, while reckoning the other churches in the city to be heretics, schismatics, and or otherwise insufficiently orthodox and orthoprax, leaving them devoid of angelic covering?

I know many people will think I’m being silly or frivolous. Many will think that such questions are like the proverbial “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” musing (even though the medieval scholastics didn’t actually talk about that). But in fact, the difference between a church having angelic representation versus not having it is actually a very big deal (which I may address in the next post). For now, suffice it to say that being Jesus’ “true church” entails certain spiritual realities, not just a collection of beliefs and practices.

So, think and feel what you will, for my part I consider it important to know whether my church has an angel, like Ephesus et alia did, or not.