Alive: 21 Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus ChristSample

Reason 20: Jesus’ church has stood the test of time

In the wake of Jesus resurrection, Christianity exploded on the earth and a few billion people today claim to be Christians as the largest, longest lasting, and most diverse movement of any kind on planet earth. The Church of Jesus Christ has not thrived and survived because Christians are smart, organized, or powerful, but only because Jesus Christ is alive and building His Church just like He promised (Matthew 16:18). On this point, C.F.D. Moule of Cambridge University says, “The birth and rapid rise of the Christian Church...remain an unsolved enigma for any historian who refuses to take seriously the only explanation offered by the Church itself.”

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C. F. D. Moule, The Phenomenon of the New Testament (London: SCM Press, 1967), 13, emphasis in original.