Death is one.
Christ's promise is significant because it says that God's power sustains the church and that the church belongs to God, not to its human caretakers, Meuser said. A worldwide family of forgiven and forgiving sinners, bound together by the Word and water of baptism, by the Spirit, by the Body and Blood of the Supper, who cheer each other on, suffer together, worship together, care for the world together. No one kept out. No one forced to stay in. Nothing locked up for internal use only.