A Bun In The Oven

Category: Jewish Evangelism

  • Jewish Treatment Under Early Christianity

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    From the 4th Century to the Reformation

    Hugh Schonfeld’s A History of Jewish Christianity records that in the fourth century such fear of the Jews existed that the church thought it necessary to outline the boundaries of inter-relationships between Jewish people and church members.

    The sixty-fourth Canon stated:

    If any clergyman entered a synagogue of the Jewish people, or the heritage (the Nazarenes) to pray, let the clergyman be deposed. If a layman, let him be excommunicated. If any bishop, Presbytery, or Deacon, or any of the list of the clergy, keeps the fast or festivals with Jewish people, or receives from them any of the gifts of their feasts (unleavened bread, etc.), let him be deposed, or if a layperson, excommunicated. And if any person, whether clerical or faithful, shall take food with a Jewish person, he is to abstain from our communion that he may learn to amend his ways.

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  • Jewish Mission History

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    A Brief History of Jewish Missions

    Jewish evangelism, the work of bringing the good news that Jesus is the Messiah to Jewish people, is not just a 20th Century phenomenon. In fact, it goes back through recorded human history. Galatians 3:6 reads, “Consider Abraham: ‘He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.’ “

    People of faith are sons of Abraham. The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are men of faith are blessed through Abraham, who had faith.

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  • Jewish Concerns

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    Current Concerns of Jewish People

    If you speak with two or three of your Jewish friends, you will find that they hold many similar concerns:

    • The survival of their people in light of the growing roots of anti-Semitism

    • Issues surrounding the state of Israel in the heat of political turmoil and battles that rage in the Middle East

    • Declining numbers of Jewish people, in light of intermarriage and children moving away from religious lifestyles

    • Social concerns, including disease and oppression throughout the world

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  • The Trinity: Jewish or Gentile-ish?

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    The Lord is One

    “Hear, O Israel, Adonai Eloheinu Adonai is one. These three are one. How can the three Names be one? Only through the perception of faith; in the vision of the Holy Spirit, in the beholding of the hidden eye alone.…So it is with the mystery of the threefold Divine manifestations designated by Adonai Eloheinu Adonai—three modes which yet form one unity.” [1]

    A Christian quote? Hardly. The above is taken from the Zohar, an ancient book of Jewish mysticism. The Zohar is somewhat esoteric and most contemporary Jews don’t study it, but there are other Jewish books that refer to God’s plurality as well.

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