United To Form A New Temple

 It was this wonderful and eternally significant proclamation that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Messiah and the Savior of mankind upon which the Lord Jesus would build His Church – for His spilt blood was to seal the fate of Satan and destroy the evil power of death and hell that had snaked its icy fingers around the throat of every man and woman born into the human race. 
 The Church was not to be founded on Peter the person, but upon the wonderful and eternally significant confession of faith about the person of Christ that God revealed to him.
 For over 2000 years, the Lord Jesus has been building His worldwide Church. The Church of Christ consists of all those that have trusted His name. They are the called-out ones, men and women that have been called out of the dark kingdom of Satan and placed into the glorious kingdom of His Son.
 The Church that Christ has been building is different from any other group of people, it has been built up of men and women of all races and languages, Jews and Gentiles who are being United To Form A New Temple, a residence for God where Christ is the Head. 
We are living stones who have put our faith in the confession that Peter once made, so many years ago: "JESUS is the Messiah. JESUS is the Christ, the anointed One. JESUS is the Son of the living God." And on this confession of faith, Jesus said,
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

Our United Prayer:
Loving Father, thank You that we are Your children and that Christ is the Rock of our salvation. May we build our confessions of faith upon Christ and Christ alone, Who is our precious Savior and loving Friend. In His name we pray, AMEN.