The Lordship and The Body

Every church claims that Jesus is in charge. The question worth asking — the one most churches quietly avoid — is whether He actually is. Not in the statement of faith. Not in the language used from the stage. But in the real, daily decisions that shape what a church preaches, how it spends its resources, what it prioritizes, and what it is willing to let go of when faithfulness costs something. In Week 2 of Built, Pastor Kevin Cox takes the congregation into two of Paul's most theologically dense letters — Ephesians and Colossians — to recover what the headship of Christ actually means and what it looks like when a church lives under it. Drawing from Ephesians 1:22–23 and Colossians 1:18, this message confronts the quiet inversion at the heart of so much contemporary Christianity: a church that honors Christ in its confession while functionally running on a different engine entirely. The result of that inversion is not hard to identify — congregations that are numerically impressive and spiritually thin, members who know the songs by heart and cannot articulate the gospel, communities built for consumers rather than formed as disciples. This message calls the church back to the standard Paul sets without apology: that in everything, Christ must be preeminent. Not first among several priorities. First in a category of His own.