Jews for Jesus
There is a disturbing trend happening in the Western Christian church. It's been around for a while, but like most media events it comes on as the latest thing - what every good Christian believer should be doing - turning to our Jewish roots.
Excuse me?
Maybe the huddled masses of lemming pew sitters have accepted this dogma openly. "We should follow jewish customs and beliefs, after all Jesus was a jew by birth."
Uhm, NO.
"Why not?" Because I'M NOT JEWISH! MY family didn't come from Isreal, and there's not a hint of Jewish ancestory in me. As a matter of fact, My ancestory is predominately celtic and pagan. Those dang 'gentiles' of the bible always causing trouble. Evangelical churches have been so inspired as to have guys dressed up in the priestly robes and such, blowing a ceremonial 'shafar' horn before service. I must admit, the horn has an awe inspiring sound. But blow that thing again and I'm beating you over the head with it. The biggest problem with this movement is that it shows our boredom with the basics of our faith. Our core belief in Jesus just isn't good enough to keep people motivated to believe so we inspire them with 'profound' wisdom to keep the fire burning. All the while slipping further from where we first started. A simple belief in Jesus Christ. Jesus said "unless you come to me like a little child, you won't get it." (I paraphrased that a bit, but it's the same) Why should we add to an already perfect gospel? Because the perfect gospel doesn't fill auditoriums. It doesn't stir the intellect.
Ok, back to the Jews for Jesus thing. What's wrong with that movement? Obviously it started as a bunch of jewish converts to Christianity. Does their acceptance of Jesus Christ negate their jewish heritage? Of course not. Those are the legal 'Jews for Jesus'. It's the goobers who blindly follow teachers who say we all should celebrate Purim and passover and the feasts and be observers of jewish tradition to get us closer to God. (buzzer sounds loudly) oh, wrong answer - thank you for playing. Get off the stage. Fact is, you don't need all that stuff to understand God. You just need to understand God loves you regardless - whether jew or greek, black or white, brown, yellow. His sacrifice for us is all we need concentrate on.
There is a disturbing trend happening in the Western Christian church. It's been around for a while, but like most media events it comes on as the latest thing - what every good Christian believer should be doing - turning to our Jewish roots.
Excuse me?
Maybe the huddled masses of lemming pew sitters have accepted this dogma openly. "We should follow jewish customs and beliefs, after all Jesus was a jew by birth."
Uhm, NO.
"Why not?" Because I'M NOT JEWISH! MY family didn't come from Isreal, and there's not a hint of Jewish ancestory in me. As a matter of fact, My ancestory is predominately celtic and pagan. Those dang 'gentiles' of the bible always causing trouble. Evangelical churches have been so inspired as to have guys dressed up in the priestly robes and such, blowing a ceremonial 'shafar' horn before service. I must admit, the horn has an awe inspiring sound. But blow that thing again and I'm beating you over the head with it. The biggest problem with this movement is that it shows our boredom with the basics of our faith. Our core belief in Jesus just isn't good enough to keep people motivated to believe so we inspire them with 'profound' wisdom to keep the fire burning. All the while slipping further from where we first started. A simple belief in Jesus Christ. Jesus said "unless you come to me like a little child, you won't get it." (I paraphrased that a bit, but it's the same) Why should we add to an already perfect gospel? Because the perfect gospel doesn't fill auditoriums. It doesn't stir the intellect.
Ok, back to the Jews for Jesus thing. What's wrong with that movement? Obviously it started as a bunch of jewish converts to Christianity. Does their acceptance of Jesus Christ negate their jewish heritage? Of course not. Those are the legal 'Jews for Jesus'. It's the goobers who blindly follow teachers who say we all should celebrate Purim and passover and the feasts and be observers of jewish tradition to get us closer to God. (buzzer sounds loudly) oh, wrong answer - thank you for playing. Get off the stage. Fact is, you don't need all that stuff to understand God. You just need to understand God loves you regardless - whether jew or greek, black or white, brown, yellow. His sacrifice for us is all we need concentrate on.
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