11/28/2025
WHAT IS THE CHURCH?
People think the Church is a building, a place you drive to on Sunday, a priest, a choir, or a program.
But the Church is far more ancient, far more alive, and far more holy than that.
The Church is the Body of Christ — the living, breathing continuation of Jesus’ work on the earth. It is not an invention of man. It is not a modern idea. It is the 2,000-year-old faith handed down from the Apostles, kept, guarded, and carried by those who walked with Him, bled for Him, and refused to change the Gospel for the world.
The Church is the Kingdom of God breaking into this world.
It is where heaven touches earth.
It is where the Holy Spirit dwells, heals, convicts, restores, and transforms.
It is not built on trends.
It is not built on personalities.
It is built on Jesus Christ, the Cornerstone, and held together by the faith delivered “once for all to the saints.”
WHAT IS THE TRUE, HISTORIC CHURCH?
The real Church didn’t start in America.
It didn’t start at the Reformation.
It didn’t start with the opinions of men.
The true, historic Church is the ancient Church Christ Himself founded through His Apostles — the one that has stood unbroken for 2,000 years, kept alive through Scripture, the Sacraments, prayer, and the witness of the saints.
It is the Church that has guarded the teachings of Christ through persecution, war, heresy, empires rising and falling, and every attempt of hell to destroy it.
And yet — the gates of hell have not prevailed.
They never will.
WHO ARE WE IN THIS CHURCH?
We are not spectators.
We are not bystanders.
We are not consumers of religious content.
We are the living members of Christ’s Body — His hands, His feet, His voice, His light in a dark world.
We are the ones called to:
🔥 Carry the Gospel with boldness
🔥 Discern truth from deception
🔥 Stand guard against spiritual warfare
🔥 Pray with authority, not fear
🔥 Love with purity, not compromise
🔥 Serve with humility, not pride
🔥 Walk in holiness, not worldly comfort
We each have a role. A calling. A responsibility.
Some teach. Some protect. Some discern. Some intercede.
Some comfort. Some proclaim. Some battle in the Spirit.
But every single one of us is part of the mission of God.
**THE CHURCH ISN’T JUST WHERE WE GO.
IT’S WHO WE ARE.**
A holy people.
A royal priesthood.
A living temple of the Holy Spirit.
And in these days — these heavy, spiritually intense days — the Church needs people who are awake, discerning, anchored in truth, and unashamed of Jesus Christ.
Because we are not here to blend in.
We are here to shine, to stand, and to fight from victory — the victory He already won.