The God Who Builds — The Story of the Church and the People of God

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The God Who Builds

The Story of the Church and the People of God

Andrés Morantes · September 7, 2026

Church history told as the keeping of a promise — I will build my church — traced across twenty centuries, from Pentecost to the present, including the chapters the church would rather forget.

About the Book

Church history is not merely a record of what human beings have done in Christ's name, but an ongoing account of what Christ himself has been doing with, through, and at times despite the people who have carried his name.

Organized into seven parts named for facets of God's building work — the God who begins, preserves, leads through history, reforms, sends his people, restores, and is still building — each part asks not only what happened, but what the promise of Matthew 16:18 looked like being kept within it.

One chapter confronts directly the gravest failures committed in Christ's name — the Crusades, the Inquisitions, complicity in slavery and colonial abuse, silence under Nazism, and the modern crisis of institutional abuse — because God's faithfulness becomes more visible, not less, when honestly measured against human failure.

Who This Book Is For

  • Pastors and teachers
  • Students of church history
  • Believers who love the church honestly

What You Will Learn

  • How the promise of Matthew 16:18 runs through twenty centuries
  • The church's story from Jerusalem and the Fathers to the Reformations and the global south
  • How to face the church's failures without losing sight of Christ's faithfulness

Inside the Book

  • 30 chapters in seven parts
  • From Pentecost to the modern missionary movement
  • An honest chapter on the church's failures

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