What is the message?

I've been trying to get my head around a reasonable summary of exactly what Jesus' secret message really is.  I'd like to discuss that question in class tomorrow, so here is a set of draft ideas to get us started.  Feel free to comment on it.

• Jesus' message is built on the foundation of the earlier story of God's involvement with the world as told in the Jewish tradition.  Jesus' message extends this tradition with increased emphasis on
• God loves the whole world and every person in it.
• God's intent is that we should love in the same way (2 great commandments)
• Failing to love (sin) leads to destructive patterns of living (death, hell?) both individually and communally.
• Jesus' life, teachings, death and resurrection demonstrate the pattern which leads to true, abundant life.
• Following Jesus can set us free from the destructive selfish patterns which bind us to death (miracles?)
• Full, abundant life comes from laying down the small, constricted life of our selfish desires to follow Jesus.
• We who have begun this journey are intended to live together in the way of Jesus, proclaim Jesus' message, and draw all humanity to participate in the experience of God's love.