>"Then we shall be ruled by Christian judges or elders? How is that a lack of rulers?"
Sister, you (and many others) are viewing this issue through the lens of hundreds of years of barnacle-like accumulation of tradition, government propaganda, and egregiously corrupted translations of the bible, so I implore you; please to the extent possible do not prejudge what I'm about to say:
The answer is BOTH yes and no. To you, as one who I know to be fluently bilingual, my first observation about language issues should make a great deal of sense. The root word "rule" is an egregiously bad translation from Greek to English. I believe it to be INTENTIONALLY bad because of the corrupting influence of nation-states (which scripture teaches us are under the control of satan, "ruler" of this world [John 16:11, et.al.]). The Greek root most often mistranslated as "rule" is ἄρχων (archon), and its core meaning in Greek is "first." This is where we get the political title "Premier." The biblical idea is far more that of a "leader" than a "ruler," and PARTICULARLY does NOT include the connotation that said "leader" has some inherently legitimate right to compel us by force to do anything.
And so, YES, "we shall be ruled by Christian judges or elders" that WE VOLUNTARILY look to as "leaders," or "first" among us BECAUSE we (individually, NOT as a "collective") have respect for their wisdom and guidance.
And also, NO, because we are NOT obligated to submit to the diktats of whatever thug who HAPPENS to be "in power" at the moment is attempting to compel us to do.
Jesus is King; he is the only one with an authentic RIGHT to "RULE" us (in the English sense of the term), and the absolutely GOOD NEWS is that Jesus is a BENEVOLENT King who truly has our individual and corporate best interests at heart.
Summarizing; the only legitimate human governance structures are 100% voluntary. Jesus/God'/Scripture's long-obscured teaching on that matter is that it is the individual, independent assemblies of believers who are VOLUNTARILY participating and who answer ONLY to King Jesus who should be governing us.
For a more comprehensive discussion of this, please see:
https://peakd.com/politics/@creatr/a-sola-the-reformers-missed-sola-ecclesia
I don't think this is the anarchy the others are aiming for.
This is just a church without a nation state ruling over the same territory, and allowing people to join or leave the area voluntarily, which sounds fine to me.
Let's make it a Catholic Church.
The Catholic church got it wrong from the start... Did it just like the world in a hierarchical fashion. Scripture shows us a decentralized model, much like bitcoin, with no centralized authority or King but Jesus himself.
the catholic church was just an attempt to maintain the power relation while selling the PR campaign that they had turned into christians, all started off by Constantine with his so-called vision
they selected a small set of books to declare as the "word of god" and nearly destroyed dozens of other texts, of which for sure Enoch was very familiar to the contemporaries of the time of Jesus - indeed much of what Jesus said was literally straight out of enoch, and you can validate the existence of enoch even in the catholic bible in the book of genesis
but the rules of what texts they did adopt, was still better than what happened after the 1200s or so when the third bethlehem star cycle passed and we started into the modern liberal democratic socialist state
replacing the king with false principles, teaching people to worship the government... we are in the late stages of this now, it won't last much longer, because stuff is about to happen that will break down their power
