Did Jesus found a church to have his authority and power?

Tim Staples is next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers podcast

for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.

I am Sy Kill at your Hose.

I emphasize Catholic really hard right there because

we're going to defend the Catholic faith today.

Many people would say, well, every Christian would say,

Jesus came with authority, teaching with authority,

and with power, performing miracles of healing and exorcism,

and other miracles as well.

But not all Christians would say that Jesus gave that power

then to his church, to a visible church with a structure in this world,

the power to teach, and the power to heal and exercise.

We Catholics say he did do that.

And Tim Staples is here to explain why.

I want to let you know that what Tim has to say here comes from a course that he did

for Catholic Answers School of Apologetics.

We're really proud of the School of Apologetics.

And so I want to, before we get into the conversation with Tim,

invite you to check out the School of Apologetics.

You can do that.

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