In Jonah 1, we meet the Israelite prophet who preferred to flee rather than obey the Lord’s call to do something new, surprising, and unpleasant, namely, go preach to the Ninevites, the mortal enemies of the Israelites. However, God did not give up on Jonah, or, as we shall see, on the Ninevites, or on us.
Jesus fulfilled the entire Old Testament by suffering, rising from the dead, and having forgiveness preached to all the nations.
Christian thinking is thinking like Jesus, especially as seen in his becoming one of us to die on the cross.
The expression, “the body of Christ,” has become such a common name for the church that we may not reflect upon what it means...