The Foundation Rock (Doctrine of the Church)

Who—or what—is the rock upon which Christ builds His Church? In this powerful message, Rushdoony unpacks a central passage often shrouded in controversy to show that the Church’s true foundation is not Peter the man, but the confession of faith in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God. Tracing the consistent witness of Scripture and church history, he reveals that Christ alone is the unshakeable rock, and that all authority in the Church is ministerial, not legislative—serving God’s Word, not supplanting it. Here lies the Church’s strength, and her promise: that even the gates of hell cannot hold out against her faithful advance.