Matthew 16:13-20 - "I Will Build My Church"

We have found ourselves in a time where the consequences of ideas are reaching their logical conclusions. The God-forsaken unbelieving philosophies of the 1920s, 1940s, and 1960s are no longer constrained by outwardly Christian customs. This means our age is lost. Unbelieving ideas are attempting to create a chaotic hellscape on earth. Our age is looking for a compelling story to explain history and fill it with meaning. There are thousands of idolatrous stories, and one true one. We have a God-Man who came to overcome and redeem. He came to repair the ruins, to restore paradise, to remarry heaven and earth, God and creation, and to put His conquering foot on the neck of every last enemy. At this point in history He is carrying this work on through the building of the Christian church. This truth gives us a mission and orients us towards a target. Christ enchants history with the mission of the church to storm the gates of hell and win. While others try in vain to re-enchant the meaninglessness with old pagan myths, Chesterton reminds us that when "Neo-pagans…set out to do everything the old pagans did, the final thing the old pagans did was to be Christened."