I believe that the roman empire (the iron legs in the dream Daniel interpreted in the bible) had its leadership / kingdom and continued with the roman catholic church to lead an empire faithfully. However things have changed recently and the roman catholic empire is slowly recognized as the babylonian harlot in the bible by a lot of people. As a result several different churches begin to form with different details in their believes. They all have the bible in common but in addition some have different traditions or influences from other religions as well. This situation is described in the bible with the iron intermingled with clay whereas clay is not really an empire but churches like your steemchurch and many others. While the roman catholic empire tries to form a one world religion with their meetings of all different religions and the pope kisses the Koran many people flee from this membership and search for true faith. This is not a bad thing as Jesus said that this search should never end and everybody who searches shall continue to search until he finds and he will find for sure. However I found the steemchurch now and I wonder what you base your faith on? I realized it is the bible but is there something like traditions in addition to it or is it "sola scriptura"? You received another upvote by me - however my voting power is low as I just started with steemit 7 days ago. I would be pleased to get an answer from you about steemchurch to find out if your community is right for me. Best regards, Bernhard