Luke 12:12-15 “And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”

Then there is the example and experience of the early church, which was of extreme poverty and oppression. You speak of the gospel being one of political liberation and empowerment, in the early church most Christians were not Roman citizens and as such had no rights. So, their message is just as abiblical as the very existence of women preachers, expressly forbidden in the Bible. Rather than be selective about what parts of the Bible that we are going to take seriously and which not, we should either keep all of it (and please do not run that tired “you aren’t keeping the 619 laws by me, I have read Romans and Galatians, ok?) or keep none of it. As Jesus Christ said, I wert that you were hot or cold, but since you are lukewarm I will spue you out of my mouth to the Laodiceans.

And as far as the New Baptist Covenant goes, where in the Bible does it support denominationalism or anything like it? The Bible commands quite the opposite; individual autonomous churches only under the headship of Jesus Christ and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, with bishops, elders, etc. chosen from within the local congregation by the local congregation. That was abandoned only when Constantine took over the church. That Protestants keep trying to replicate the Roman Church with our many various denominations shows that with regards to that spiritual Babylon of trying to govern God’s church with human authority like Rome we have failed to completely “come out of her my people.” Unless we do, we will share in Babylon’s plagues. The nonsense that is going on with the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Baptist Convention, the Progressive Baptists, the Episcopals, ELCA, PCUSA, demonstrates why the Bible is still right and we are still wrong.