The Call of Jesus to Family

If church is either too much baggage in that word for you or if it's too ambiguous or generic, just swap out bridge town community. For Jesus to be a child of the father is at the same time to be a brother or sister in the family. The New Testament theologian Paul's go-to metaphor for Jesus' new Jew plus Gentile family was that of adoption. One scholar read a few days ago translated the word as family-fication and said we have been familified by grace through faith.