Y'all Come seeks to understand G-d's call to Jesus the way that Jesus understood it--to see the Jesus that Jesus saw. The Jesus of Y'all Come was inviting Israel, the religious community, to join him as residents of G-d's neighborhood. He did so by teaching and modeling what life looked like in that neighborhood. By accepting Jesus's invitation, Israel would live into her "chosen" status as established by the Sinai covenant. She would become the "holy nation" of Exodus 19:6 and the "light to the nations" of Isaiah 49:6. She would do so by sharing the same holy light with other nations that...
Y'all Come seeks to understand G-d's call to Jesus the way that Jesus understood it--to see the Jesus that Jesus saw. The Jesus of Y'all Come was i...