When Jesus said that He would build His church, what was He talking about? Every Christian denomination or non-denomination would like to lay some claim to this statement with some degree of certainty that Jesus was referring to their specific group. The failure in that mindset is that Scripture is not referring to what we are building but to what Christ is building. Christ is not building a congregation; He is building a community; He is not building an empire; He is building a kingdom; He is not building a place, He is building a people.