WHO STARTED YOUR CHURCH?

Church Year Founder
Saddleback Church 1982 Rick Warren
Harvest Christian 1972 Greg Laurie
Calvary Chapel 1965 Chuck Smith
Four-Square Gospel 1917 Aimee Semple McPherson
Christian Science 1879 Mary Baker Eddy
Jehovah's Witnesses 1874 Charles Taze Russell
Salvation Army 1865 William Booth
Mormons 1830 Joseph Smith
Disciples of Christ 1827 Thomas & Alexander Campbell
United Brethren 1800 Philip Otterbein & Martin Boehm
Episcopalian 1789 Samuel Seabury
Methodist Episcopal 1739 John & Charles Wesley
Baptist 1609 John Smith
Congregationalist 1582 Robert Brown
Presbyterian 1560 John Knox
Calvinist 1555 John Calvin
Anglican 1534 Henry VIII
Lutheran 1517 Martin Luther
Catholic Church 33 Jesus Christ

                                  Check it out: Matthew 16:  13 - 19

     When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"   They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
     He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter said in reply, "You are the
Messiah, the Son of the  living God."  Jesus said to him in reply,
"Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.  And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.  I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven.  Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

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