{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Life Tabernacle Church","title":"The Church that Christ is Building | Matthew 16:13-18 | Bishop Randall Lawrence Sr. ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3203,"description":"The Church that Christ is Building — Matthew 16:13-19\nGuest speaker: Bishop Lawrence\nAt Caesarea Philippi — standing in the shadow of a pagan temple and a cave the ancients called the gate to the underworld — Jesus made a declaration: I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.\nBishop Lawrence walks the sentence word by word:\nI — Jesus is the architect. Not Peter, not a pope, not a pastor.\nWill — a promise about the future, spoken before the church existed.\nBuild — not a one-time act, but an ongoing work still expanding across every continent.\nMy — it was never our church, and the enemy loves to divide us over preferences that have no eternal value.\nChurch — ekklesia, the called-out ones. God isn't building a building. He's building a people.\nAlong the way, three kinds of churches: the memorial church, convinced its best days are behind it; the maintenance church, content to keep everyone comfortable; and the movement church, still reaching, still on mission. From Acts 2, six marks of the church Jesus started — Spirit-filled, disciple-making, fellowshipping, worshiping, praying, and evangelistic.\nThe message closes with a word over Life Tabernacle from Job 8:7: though your beginning was small, yet your latter end shall greatly increase.\nScripture: Matthew 16:13-19; Acts 2:41-47; Job 8:7; Revelation 1:18; Ephesians 3:20-21\nRecorded live at Life Tabernacle Church in Vinton, Virginia, on July 19th, 2026, by Bishop Randall Lawrence.\n\nWant to connect more with Life Tabernacle?\nVisit us online: lifetabernaclepcg.com\nFeeling led to support the ministry?\nGive securely here: Tithely Giving Link","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/grc1AkQ1QGA5CeZebwgumgDLGg7tJiyQyy12zzMDXas/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mYzhi/NWJhNTU0OTMxNDgw/N2NjNzJmMGVjM2M5/NzA1Yy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}