Declaring All the Counsel of God

English 🇵🇭 Tagalog The Church That Never Vanished A Study of Matthew 16:18 and the Unbroken Promise of Christ “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” — Matthew 16:18 Introduction: A Promise That Demands an Answer There is a claim that circulates through the religious world with alarming confidence and dangerous consequences. It is the claim that the church Jesus built  fell away , that it  vanished  from the earth, that it became so corrupted it ceased to exist — and that therefore, someone had to  restore  it. From this premise, entire religious movements have been built, denominations have been founded, and men have crowned themselves apostles of a "restored gospel." But I want you to stop right here, before we go one verse further, and ask yourself a simple, piercing question:  If the church Jesus built vanished...