In March 2017, Girchi created the Christian, Evangelical, Protestant Church of Georgia, also known as the Church of Biblical Freedom. Its primary purpose was to employ military conscription loopholes allowing citizens to defer or avoid compulsory military service if serving in an ordained religious capacity.
The Church has since been officially registered with the Ministry of Justice and claims to have helped close to 50,000 young men avoid conscription (although the Ministry of Defense has disputed these metrics, estimating approximately 12,000 conscription evaders). While external critics have questioned whether the entity conforms to orthodox religious criteria, leadership has demonstrated that it falls squarely within the definition of an established religion with concrete principles grounded in Christian anarchism, bodily autonomy, and non-aggression. Individuals that seek to be ordained as priests of the Biblical Freedom Church are asked to donate 50 lari to the organization.
Despite receiving statutory legal recognition, public authorities and state organs have been relentlessly critical of its operations. Former Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze publicly denounced the organization as a “threat to national security”, while Parliamentary Defense and Security Committee chairman Irakli Sesiashvili characterized its actions as “wrong and unjustifiable”. As Minister of Defense, Irakli Gharibashvili called the Church a “disaster” and pledged to curtail it through legislative maneuvers. In contrast, several prominent opposition groups—including the United National Movement and European Georgia—consistently supported its existence and defended the citizen's right to utilize statutory loopholes against coercive state labor. In April 2017, the Agency of Religious Affairs formally requested a registry of personal identity data of all ordained clergymen—a surveillance attempt strongly condemned by civil society organizations as an infringement on privacy and freedom of conscience. Later legislative amendments sought to curtail religious exemptions while preserving privileges solely for the Georgian Orthodox Church.
In February 2021, the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church enacted a controversial decree denying communion, baptism, ecclesiastical marriage, and funeral rites to citizens ordained as priests of Biblical Freedom. This triggered extensive theological and constitutional debates over spiritual coercion and human dignity. In 2019, following administrative measures to terminate the church's registration, the Girchi organization formally proclaimed an ecclesiastical anathema against then-Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani and Public Development Agency Director Soso Giorgadze for orchestrating state persecution against freedom of belief.