We must recover the foundation and root of our faith in order to have an accurate understanding of God's purpose for Israel as well as His purpose for the Church. "Jesus Was Not a Christian" was written to help recover that most-important foundation. An insufficient grasp of this crucial fact will not only marginalize Jesus' mission while on earth but will also marginalize our call as the Church to provoke Israel to jealousy. Jesus did not come to earth to shed His blood to start a new religion called Christianity; He came to fulfill the Scriptures as the Messiah of Israel and the Savior of the world.