It is actually really sad. People cannot move closer…

It is actually really sad. People cannot move closer to the truth when they are busy defending their current position and associations.
It is ironic that the very people who solidly put themselves in a box and declare, "This is the right box," are the same ones who want to put you in a box and declare that you are in the wrong one. All the while, there are many of us who refuse to be put in a box.
I reject labels, except those that identify me as a child of God and a disciple of Jesus Christ. I am neither Protestant nor Catholic. I am not Lutheran, Baptist, Calvinist, or Arminian. I am not KJV only. I am not Republican or Democrat. I will not tow any party line.
To clarify, refusing a political label does not mean I will only vote for independent candidates. Just because I vote for someone does not mean I am aligned with them completely. Likewise, refusing a denominational label does not mean I refuse to step foot inside a church unless it is entirely unassociated. Just because I preach and defend certain biblical principles and doctrines held by people who accept labels does not mean I accept the label myself. Truth is truth, wherever it is found, but the moment we adopt the label, we adopt the baggage and the limitations that come with it.
The Apostle Paul rejected this exact kind of sectarianism very clearly in his first letter to the Corinthians. He spoke against and corrected those who were dividing the body of believers based on who they followed, writing:
"For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you. Now I say this, that each of you says, 'I am of Paul,' or 'I am of Apollos,' or 'I am of Cephas,' or 'I am of Christ.' Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?" (1 Corinthians 1:11-13)
When you break that passage down, Paul is targeting the heart of tribalism. The people were aligning themselves with specific teachers to form factions, using human names to validate their own righteousness. But notice the most profound part of Paul's correction: he even spoke against the people who said, "I am of Christ." Why? Because they were saying it with the sectarian implication that others were not. They turned the very name of Christ into an exclusive club, a badge of superiority, and another competitive box to look down on others from. Paul asks the ultimate rhetorical question to shatter this mindset: "Is Christ divided?"
Furthermore, Paul did not just rebuke people for saying they belong to an individual teacher; he turned the entire dynamic on its head by telling them that all of those teachers actually belonged to them. Later in that same letter, he writes, "For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all are yours."
This truth can be broadly applied, even politically. I do not belong to any political figure, but good or bad, they all belong to us collectively as citizens. The value of a political leader is tied directly to how much they acknowledge the people of the nation to whom they owe their service. It is never a statement that I am aligned with a political leader; it is always a question of how well they are aligned with me.
But when it comes to Christ, the dynamic changes completely. I belong to Him and to no one else. He is not a public servant to be evaluated; He is my beginning and my end. My provider, my savior, my defender, and my closest friend, as well as my master and my decision maker.
All I am interested in is genuine truth, which belongs to God and is synonymous with facts. I know who I am. I am His. I want to be defined by my obedience to the Word of God, and it is impossible to continually refine that obedience while remaining in boxes that emphasize one truth to the exclusion of another.
Truth has nuance.
If you are Catholic, you are neither saved nor unsaved by that fact alone, but it does limit your ability to follow God outside of that box. Traditions in every denomination take away from the truth of God. Catholicism has many traditions that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God, and the Catholic Church is the closest parallel to the Pharisees. Catholics are to the church what the Pharisees were to the Israelites. They are those who hold to long standing traditions that are contrary to the Word of God, which does not change and cannot be adjusted by the pope, either in word or interpretation.
When Jesus said, "And on this rock I will build my church," He was not talking exclusively about Peter, or any future church leader, but about the confession of faith Peter had just made.
The church is made of living stones which make up the temple of God, and each of them declares about Jesus, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Peter's declaration made him the first example of a living stone, and his name was chosen on purpose by God as a representation of what solid faith in Christ looks like. Peter was always mentioned first, and was the head of the church in Jerusalem, and he was a solid example of the type of living stone that Christ builds His church with.
Peter was fallible, but his faith in Christ was solid. His word was not infallible, and he was not an exclusive representative of truth, as he was even appropriately corrected by Paul in one case.
All of us have the same potential to have rock solid faith in Christ. We have no need that anyone teach us because the Holy Spirit will lead us into all truth, yet He did call some to teach, some to preach, some to evangelize, some to prophesy, and some to be sent out, which are called apostles. None of these callings have ended. The gifts and callings are without repentance, and they are for all who believe their message, and by extension, even my message, so long as it adheres to the truth of the Word of God.
Some of you will be very tempted to look at the way I am wrapping this up and put me in the fivefold ministry box. Nope, wrong again. Just because I preach what the Word of God says and a certain group tends to emphasize it does not put me in that box.
I also won't announce myself as a prophet, but I have prophesied. I won't announce myself as an apostle, but I have been sent, an apostle means "sent one." I am certainly a preacher, but we are all called to preach. I am at times a teacher, but I won't take the label.
What do I say then? Iron sharpens iron. Read what I write if you want to learn from it, if you can. Feel free to respond, to protest, to throw stones.
What is it to me? I may learn from your behavior or your words, good or bad, with the promise that I am being led into all truth by the Holy Spirit.
What is the worst you can do to me? I have already been through the fire and tested.
Fire burns away impurities. Trials and tribulations increase patience and perseverance, as well as humility.
So bring it on. I don't need any foundation other than Christ, but that doesn't mean I don't have lots of friends who accept labels and whom I still respect.
It is my estimation of your character, which has to do with love, humility, and your alignment with the truth, that increases or decreases my respect for your words.
But your value as a human created in the image of God does not decrease with me because you might stand in a place of ignorance or confusion. On the contrary, you and I are the apple of God's eye.
The treasure in the field of the world that He bought. The question is not whether there is value; the question is, can it be refined into pure gold?
Step out of your boxes, which limit your growth. If you try to put me in a box, it doesn't make me angry. It makes me sad for you.