There was a time when the church of God appeared to be focused in one corporate body, the Worldwide Church of God. However, during these times of disintegration and disappointment, the church is widely scattered following that body's collapse. Those who left the Worldwide Church of God find themselves in different organizations, each with basically the same doctrines but different corporate names identifying them. Each group may have a somewhat different focus as to its message and purpose, and some may even exhibit a standoffish attitude toward other corporate churches of God. Because of these things, unity, purpose, and solidarity have suffered greatly. For those who spent a long time in the Worldwide Church of God, constant references to its being the true church drilled the concept deeply into their consciousnesses. A many-decades-long record of unified purpose and growth supported this, as that one body carried out a large-scale, worldwide work. Does a single, corporate, true church of God exist? Jesus clearly states that He will build His church, singular, and not churches. One does not find the true church on his own any more than one can find Christ and the Father on His own. A person is led to God and to the church, and he is added to it upon repentance, baptism, giving himself wholly to God, and receiving the Holy Spirit. God's true church cannot be found without revelation, and it cannot be joined by mere human effort. The Bible describes the church as part of a Kingdom that issues citizenships, a building of which its members are materials, the body of Jesus Christ of which its members are vital parts, and a Family into which God's children are summoned. There is no more important and exclusive institution on earth, and no volunteers are accepted; each person becomes a part of it by God's design only. Despite the vast number of people calling themselves Christian, the true church is minuscule and virtually invisible. Yet, it does exist, for Jesus promises that He will build His church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. It will never die out because eternal life resides within it, and the most powerful army in all creation protects and provides for it. Was the church, the assembly of called-out ones, ever all in one corporate group? Yes, but it did not last long. After the early period, as the apostles scattered to preach the gospel, congregations began to form beyond Jerusalem and Antioch, and a gradual dissolving of the unique, one-true-church unity occurred. Clearly, it was God's will for the assembly of called-out ones to increase, not only in number, but to worldwide locations. Nonetheless, divisions occurred, and the concept of a single congregation or corporate entity being the one true church became vague and substantially disregarded. A closer look at the congregations in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea reveals varied conditions among them, with each facing unique challenges and commendations. These Gentile congregations, likely with Jewish minorities, had little communication with the original Jerusalem congregation by the end of the first century. Christ's brethren are scattered, but fellowship of some sort is still available with the various congregations of God. This situation gives God the opportunity to judge the depth of personal conversion in ways that the church's former situation did not.