John 15.1-5 - Dr. Van Gelderen opened up for us the very familiar metaphor of the vine and branches. We tend to divide vine and branch as separate categories in our mind - but if you look at a real vine, what is vine and what are branches? It all looks like a vine to us. That is God's goal for his people, that we might replicate the very image of the Vine as much as possible in this sin soaked world.