D. The church of Jesus Christ is the present-day expression of the one people of God whose roots go back to Abraham. The church of Jesus Christ in its earliest “personnel make-up” was Jewish in nature and membership (see Acts 1:8; 2:5–6, 14, 22, 36), and it was only after the passage of some years that this Jewish church began to evangelize the nations (Acts 10). But even after Jewish Christians within the church became a minority because of the sheer number of Gentiles who were being converted,