What did Jesus mean when He said, “I will build my Church”? Did Jesus establish the Catholic Church—a visible Church with authority, sacraments, apostolic leadership, and a mission that would continue throughout history? In this episode of Divinely Catholic: Two Roads. One Church., Jackie and Bernardo explore what Catholics really believe about the Church Jesus built and why Catholics believe the Church today has a direct connection to the Church established by Jesus Christ and entrusted to His apostles. Together, we examine Scripture, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, apostolic succession, the Magisterium, and the witness of the early Christians to answer one of Christianity's most important questions: Was He simply referring to an invisible collection of believers—or did Christ establish a visible, united, teaching, sacramental, and apostolic Church? For Jackie, coming from an Evangelical Christian background, one question eventually changed everything, Instead of asking, “Which church fits me?” what happens when we begin asking, “Which Church did Jesus establish?” Whether you're Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Orthodox, returning to the faith, considering Catholicism, or simply curious about what Catholics believe, we invite you to open your Bible and investigate these questions with us. Our goal isn't simply to tell you what Catholics believe—but to explore why Catholics believe it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗝️I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH 🗝️ • What exactly did Jesus establish when He said, “I will build my Church”? • Was He simply referring to an invisible collection of believers—or did Christ establish a visible, united, teaching, sacramental, and apostolic Church? • In Matthew 16:18–19, Jesus tells Peter: “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church…” • Jesus then gives Peter the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and the authority of binding and loosing. • Why does this passage matter? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏SCRIPTURES DISCUSSED🙏 • Matthew 16:13–19 — Peter, the Rock & the Keys Matthew 28:18–20 — The Great Commission • John 17:20–23 — Jesus' prayer for Christian unity • Acts 1:15–26 — Matthias succeeds Judas • Acts 2:42 — Life of the early Church • Acts 15 — The Council of Jerusalem • 1 Corinthians 3:16 — God's Temple • 1 Corinthians 12:12–27 — The Body of Christ • Ephesians 4:1–6 — One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism • Ephesians 5:25–32 — Christ & His Bride • Colossians 1:18 — Christ, Head of the Church • 1 Timothy 3:15 — Pillar & Foundation of Truth • 2 Timothy 2:2 — Apostolic succession of teaching • 2 Thessalonians 2:15 — Scripture & Apostolic Tradition ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 CATECHISM REFERENCES📚 📖 CCC 748–769 — Christ and the Church; the Church in God's plan 📖 CCC 781–801 — People of God, Body of Christ & Temple of the Holy Spirit 📖 CCC 811–865 — One, Holy, Catholic & Apostolic 📖 CCC 846–848 — “Outside the Church there is no salvation” 📖 CCC 857–860 — The apostolic mission of the Church 📖 CCC 874–896 — The Church's hierarchical constitution ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CatholicChurch #CatholicFaith #DivinelyCatholic #Catholicism #ChurchJesusBuilt
