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QUESTION: When did Jesus build His church?
ANSWER: In Matthew 16:18, at the beginning of His public ministry, Jesus said,
“I will build my church.” So, clearly, the church had not been built at that time.
Ten days after Jesus ascended back to the Father, Peter on the day of Pentecost
(Acts 2), for the first time, told people how to get into the church that Christ
promised to build. On that day, three thousand people followed Peter’s
instructions and their sins were forgiven (Acts 2:38-41). These, who were thus
saved, were by that same process, the first to be added by the Lord to His church
(Acts 2:47). This particular Pentecost day, then, was the birthday of the church ofChrist! ministry began when He was about thirty years of age. The evidence in the
gospel accounts of Luke 22:15; John 2:13; John 5:1; and John 6:4 indicates that
there were four yearly Passovers during Christ’s public ministry. From the first to
the fourth Passover (at which time He was crucified) would be three full years. It
is reckoned from the events of His early ministry that a time period of
approximately five months passed prior to His cleansing of the temple during the
first Passover (John 2:13-17). There were fifty days between Passover and
Pentecost. If we add the three full years, the five months, and the fifty days, we
arrive at approximately three and one-half years. Adding this figure to Jesus’ age
of thirty years at the beginning of His public ministry, we have thirty-three and
one-half years. Thus, it is determined that the church was established in 33AD on
the first Pentecost following the crucifixion of Christ. Because a mistake of about
three years was made in the Christian calendar when it replaced the Roman
calendar in 526AD, some scholars hold to the 30AD date. It is certain, however,
that the church of the Bible, the church of Christ (Roman 16:16) was established
no later than 33AD! So the church of Christ was not established four years ago,
but rather it was established more than two thousand years ago.
The Catholic Church was established in the year 606AD, almost 600 years after
the church of the Bible was established. The Methodist church did not have its
beginning until 1739AD, 1700 years after the church of Christ!
