Fellow citizens and members of the family

The congregation is the place created by God after Whitsun (Shavuot) where the gentiles may share Israel’s privileges. In an impressive manner Paul speaks about this in Ephesians 2:11-22. Gloomily he pictures the situation of the goyim (i.e. the non-Jews): without Christ, alienated from Israeli’s citizenship, alienated from the covenants and the promises, without God …