07 - In Church or in Christ?

In their turn, both John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus Christ bluntly confronted the Jews over their descent from Abraham; specifically, the Jews' presumptuous boasting about their physical descent from the patriarch.
Take John the Baptist:
Do not presume to say to yourselves [he told them]: 'We have Abraham as our father', for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up [spiritual] children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire (Matt. 3:9-10).