What are we?

I've just returned from the DTC Bible study, and something in Exodus 16:8 struck me and brought me back to thinking about the authority of Scripture. The Israelites are grumbling to Moses that they have no food and Moses answers, "the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him - what are we? Your grumbling is not against us bug against the LORD". The Israelites thought they were just grumbling to Moses, but as he was God's prophet they were really grumbling to God.

When we were talking about authority, we referred to Grudem's line: "disbelieving or disobeying any word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God". But we can take that a step further which I just hadn't thought of. Where the church is in line with the Bible, grumbling against the church is grumbling against God. When people slate the church for being arrogant, exclusive, outdated, boring, irrelevant, anti-women, anti-gay or anything else, they're actually going up against God and calling him those things. (I need to stress here that this is only true when the church is in line with Scripture - there are groups calling themselves Christians who are all of these things and should be called for it.)

I found the 'next step' of this doctrine to be an encouragement for when we end up fighting culture - we have the authority of God himself with us. But it's also a reminder how important it is for the church's teaching to only ever be in line with what we've received, and also how serious a thing it is when people ignore what they hear in church or from Christians. (Again, with the above proviso!)

I don't know, it just got me thinking. What are we? I guess when we get it right, we're speaking only God's words, with God's authority.

Am I close, do you reckon?