Jerald Finney
Copyright © May 17, 2025

The First Amendment to the Constitution and corresponding state constitutional provisions, the highest law of the United States and the highest laws of each state, guarantee religious freedom and soul liberty and declare that churches in America can organize and do things God’s way without persecution or taxation. Many churches are doing just that; they are organizing under their Bridegroom, and Him alone.

Many companies market money-making schemes in which they convince uneducated Christians to organize churches outside God’s principles. Foundation Group is one of those companies. Under their scheme, they teach and implement church incorporation and LLC status. Any kind of legal status for churches, to include incorporation and LLC, grieve our Lord and violate church doctrine given by God in his word, the Bible. Christ is jealous of His Bride and wishes her to remain under Him and Him alone.

The Simply Church Ministry website has books, articles, essays, and video teachings which explain the Bible doctrines of church, state, church and state, and the proper application of those doctrines. Only one who has studied the word of God and various legal forms of organization will understand the lies of Foundation Group. The Simply Church website gives the believer and church all the resources they need to understand God’s church organizational doctrine and His desired relationship between church and state.

Foundation Group is right about some matters. For example, they are correct in teaching that church 508(c)((1)(A) status makes a church a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. They are dead wrong in advising churches to organize as corporations or LLC’s. Both types of organizations are creatures of the state organized under state law, and subject to all the rules and regulations that come with the organization. See, for example, Legal Explanation of Incorporation of Churches | Simply Church. If a church incorporates or gets LLC status, they may as well get 501(c)(3) tax-exempt state as well.

I welcome the opportunity to do a published video debate with a Foundation Group representative. However, I do not believe they would agree to this because it would expose them for what they are. I left a comment on their website challenging them to a debate, but have not heard back from them. I believe they removed the comment. I cannot find it.

The following posts on the Simply Church website give short answers to some important questions with links to more in-depth studies. These short articles will get you started in your study of church organizational matters.:

The New Testament of Jesus Christ: His Executor Named and Empowered

1. Is it illegal for a church in America not to incorporate? Does a church have to be a 501c3?
2. Are churches automatically tax exempt?
3. What is a Spiritual entity?
4.What is a legal entity?
5. Is a church a Spiritual entity, a legal entity, or a Spiritual/legal entity? See also, Spiritual versus Legal Entities
6. Does God Care if our Church is Incorporated?
7. Should a Church Be a 508 Church?
8. Does a church in America need an Employer (Tax) ID Number?
9.What does church, inc. mean?
10. Who Is the head of an incorporated church?
11. What is 501c3?
12. What is 508?
13. What is the history of the First Amendment?
14. What is the History and Meaning of “Establishment of Religion” in America?
15. What is an established church?
16. What is a First Amendment Church?
17. Question from a Church Concerning Church Organization
18. The Bible Answer to the Question, “Is an Incorporated 501(c)(3) or 508 Church a Church of Christ?”