What is a Biblical picture of the church? And how do we live that out here in northern Minnesota?
Jesus came to seek and save the lost - not to judge or condemn them. As His followers, we must follow His example and join Him in His mission.
As followers of Jesus, we can't die on a cross for the sins of all humanity. But the Apostle Paul tells us that we can have the same attitude of Christ. Jesus' attitude directed His actions and that has a direct bearing on how we should live our lives.
John the Baptist was the first to associate the inward action of repentance with the outward symbol of baptism - no one had ever done that before. Jesus did something that only God had ever done - He made a new covenant with God's people - and now forgiveness of sin was possible through Jesus.