their own way home.

I do not normally use gracEmail for this purpose (to do so could quickly consume every issue), but I come today urging you to consider a special need in Africa and to ask God if you are to be a part of the solution.

George Odhiambo is a Jesus-man in Kenya in East Africa, with whom Sara Faye and I have had contact for several years. He and his wife Lilian have three children (full disclosure: one of whom is named “Edward Fudge Odhiambo”) but like many of their fellow-Christians there, they also support his father, other relatives and some village orphans.

George is a graduate of Great Commission Evangelism School of Nairobi, and he is looked to as a leader in the church and in aMatthew He is second Israel. He fulfills all that was previously lacking, bringing both covenantal man (Adam) and covenantal people (Israel), through perfect obedience, to their intended covenantal reward and peace with God.

All that Jesus did, therefore, He did for His people. Like David facing Goliath on behalf of all Israel, He was His people’s Representative, Champion and only hope. On the outcome of His struggle their destiny depended. We do not need to stop here to consider the Calvinist-Wesleyan con­troversy concerning those He represented. Both schools can agree that the gospel is to be preached without discrimination to all and that all who truly believe it may see Christ as the One who lived and died in their stead. By His perfect obedience Jesus fulfilled all God’s