Who do you say I am?

What does it mean to belong to something that no empire, no force, and no failure can destroy? At the heart of this message is a stunning declaration from Jesus in Matthew 16 -- that he himself would build his church, and that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. What strikes us is not just the boldness of that promise, but who it was made through and to.

Peter, a man who sank in the waves, who slept when he should have prayed, who denied Jesus three times -- he became the rock on which something eternal was built. That is not an accident. It is a pattern. The church has never been built on the perfect. It has always been built on the willing. We are invited to sit with three simple but transforming truths: everyone is welcome, nobody is perfect, and anything is possible.