No.
The reason is their perception of Christ is through the ego pyramid without having any validation from elders.
Often times it is subjective, not objective.
Truth cannot be subjective. There is only one truth.
What happens to evangelical Christians?
Say that there is a pastor who preaches Christ. Your perception of Christ is only through his lens. If he is running an independent church, he will bring his prejudice and judgment of the divine through his ministry. Eventually one who follows Christ will go astray, not because of Christ, but because of the follower's perception of Christ through him.
"My relationship with Christ has gone bad. I am no longer a Christian now." That is where the point most evangelicals reach at some point.
But when you believe in a non-denominational church, you are believing in saints. Saints are sanctified through their life itself. You are not listening to all of Tom, Dick, and Harry, who are prejudiced and bringing their ego agendas (gender, race, and nationality) through their gospels.
If you are an orthodox Christian, you are well aware of this.
The priest in your parish is on check with his elder. If he is preaching gospel contrary to the holy spirit, he will no longer serve the parish. Now there is a unified truth.
Why do new believers choose non-denominational churches?
It comes with freedom. The most dangerous, treacherous, and alluring thing.
Christ can be what my ego wants him to be. Plus, I don't want to submit myself to a higher authority (priest) for guidance.
I am not saying all the priests are saints. But a priest is a part of the church Christ and his disciples established. You are believing in an establishment. It has been refined through centuries by the Holy Spirit. Your priest may not even like you. But you go there because you belong to the body of Christ. Now that is obedience. From obedience, humility is born.
From my personal experience, I totally understand it. Especially when I don't like people that much.
I am an Oriental Orthodox Christian. Syro-Malankara-Orthodox.
But I am more comfortable going to some evangelical Christian groups than going to my actual church.
It is mainly because of my personal situation right now.
In my place, Adoor, if I go to church, everybody will know me. "You are the son of Rajan, who is the son of Mathai. You are financially not doing well. In fact, you haven't reached anywhere in your life." And there are people in the church who don't like my Father or Grandfather. Now that is an obstacle. And also because of my nature. I wasn't that God-fearing in the first place.
But that's where Christ put me. Even if I am going to another orthodox church, it's the same thing.
But I have decided to abandon myself for the will of God now.
It is some hard bullet to bite.
There is no point in being an independent Christian watching YouTube videos of evangelical Christians talking absolute nonsense.
CHRIST CAME AND ESTABLISHED A CHURCH. YOU HAVE THE BIBLE THROUGH THE CHURCH.
It is the Christ who matters most. Not the book.
It is the church that matters most.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has more books in their Bible.
It doesn't matter which version of the Bible is true. What matters is they believe in an establishment set by Christ himself. That is what that matters most.
Now an evangelical who is living in America will say something through the lens of their ego pyramid (gender, race, nationality) to distort the truth. But no Catholic or Orthodox will say something like that ( I mean the priests) frivilously. That is because of the structure of the unified body of Christ.
So If you are meeting Christ and wants to know Christ better, go to a parish. It is not going to be an ego trip with loud music and dance party. The process will be very slow. In silence and boredom your spirit will grow.
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.”
- Matthew 13:33