Tag: Matthew 16:15-18

Digging in Deeper: Matthew 16:15-18

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“‘But you,’ he asked them, ‘who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ Jesus responded, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.'” (CSB – Read the chapter)

I want to come back yet again this week to a passage we have looked at a couple of times recently, including just last week. If the church is the body of Christ, and if, as we talked about last time, the church is to be proclaiming the identity of Jesus to the world in everything we do, then what does it mean to be the church, and what should be the relationship of an individual follower of Jesus to the church? Let’s dig back in today to some more of the implications of what Jesus revealed about the church to His disciples.

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Morning Musing: Matthew 16:15-18

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“‘But you,’ he asked them, ‘who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ Jesus responded, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.” (CSB – Read the chapter)

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the church lately, what it is and how it was designed by God to work. I’ve been doing this as my own church has been going through a season of growth, especially with kids and young families. I’ve been doing that as more and more reports keep coming in from more and more different places about the growth of the church in parts of the world that have been deeply secular for a very long time. Through all of this, I’ve come away even more impressed with the profound uniqueness and goodness of the church. Let’s take some more time today to think about all of this together.

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