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Fellowship Of Christian Testimonies To The Jews
The Fellowship of Christian Testimonies to the Jews (FCTJ) was formed in the 1950s by Fred Kendal, founder of a Jewish mission called Israel's Remnant and Emil Elbe as a Christian mission to Jews. In 1975 the body condemned the Messianic Judaism movement.David A. Rausch Communities in conflict: evangelicals and Jews 1991 "Messianic Judaism is Old Hat," AMF Monthly 80 (November and December 1975). On October 18, 1975, the Fellowship of Christian Testimonies to the Jews concluded: "BE IT RESOLVED, therefore, that the FCTJ stand apart from and in ..." References {{reflist, 2 Conversion of Jews to Christianity Christian missions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Mission To Jews
Christian mission to Jews, evangelism among Jews, or proselytism to Jews, is a subset of Christian missionary activities which are engaged in for the specific purpose of converting Jews to Christianity. History Early Christianity The Gospels record that Jesus focused on preaching and teaching among the Jews in Judea and Galilee. Although he briefly visited Samaria to speak with Samaritans (John 4), he largely avoided ministering to Gentiles. In one encounter with a Gentile woman (Mt 15:23), he said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Matthew and Acts record Jesus commissioning his followers to take his message beyond the confines of Judea after his resurrection (Mt 29:18-20; Acts 1:8). Although Christianity spread rapidly in Gentile regions as a result of this commissioning, Jesus's early Jewish followers did not neglect spreading his message among fellow Jews in Judea and the diaspora. The first recorded sermon by one of Jesus's apostles is by Peter, sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messianic Judaism
Messianic Judaism ( he, or , ) is a modernist and syncretic movement of Protestant Christianity that incorporates some elements of Judaism and other Jewish traditions into evangelicalism. It emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier Hebrew Christian movement, and was most prominently propelled through the non-profit organization "Jews for Jesus" founded in 1973 by Martin "Moishe" Rosen, an American minister under the Conservative Baptist Association. Evangelical Protestants who identify as Messianic Jews believe that Jesus (referred to by the Hebrew-language name among adherents) is the Jewish Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible, and that the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament) and the New Testament are the authoritative scriptures of mankind. Salvation in Messianic Judaism is achieved only through the acceptance of Jesus as one's saviour, and not through adherence to Jewish rabbinical law. Belief in Jesus as a messianic figure and as divine (i.e. God the Son) is co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conversion Of Jews To Christianity
Many Christians believe in a widespread conversion of the Jews to Christianity, which they often consider as an end-time event. Some Christian denominations consider the conversion of the Jews imperative and pressing, and as a result they make it their mission to proselytize among them (''See also'': Proselytization and counter-proselytization of Jews). In the New Testament The biblical basis for this expectation is found in : :I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved... (NIV). The meaning of Romans 11:25-26a has been disputed. Douglas J. Moo calls Romans 11:26a "the storm center in the interpretation of and of New Testament teaching about the Jews and their future." Moo himself interprets the passage as predicting a "large-scale conversion of Jewish people at the end of this age" through "faith in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
