If your church closed its doors tomorrow, would anyone in your community even notice? That question has driven Dermot Cottuli's ministry for nearly four decades. A pastor with 37 years of pastoral experience, currently leading a congregation in a social housing community in Southern Tasmania, Cottuli has watched the Western church trade Jesus' mission to the poor for a model measured by attendance figures, giving totals, and program participation. In If Jesus Built the Church , Cottuli returns to the texts most churches quietly skip: Matthew 25, where Jesus declares that all people will be judged on whether they fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and visited prisoners; Isaiah 58, where God rejects religious devotion uncoupled from justice; and Luke 4, where Jesus announces he was anointed specifically to bring good news to the poor and the oppressed. This is not a theoretical argument. Cottuli describes how Grace Church moved into Rokeby, a struggling social housing estate, bought a rundown pub, and spent years serving the community's agenda before their own. Along the way, they partnered with social enterprise Loaves and Fishes and built a kitchen which now produces 2,500 cooked meals weekly for Tasmanians in need. Written for pastors, church leaders, and everyday believers willing to ask hard questions, If Jesus Built the Church challenges readers to measure faithfulness not by Sunday numbers but by whether the hungry are fed, the forgotten are seen, and the church looks anything like the carpenter from Nazareth who started it.