Messianic Synagogue

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

Messianic Jews occupy an uncomfortable position between a Christian church that sometimes fails to appreciate their distinctives and a Jewish community that often rejects them as intruders. In living out their faith in Jesus as Savior in the framework of Jewish identity and tradition, Messianic Jews experience their "in-between" status as a major factor in their own spiritual formation.

Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin has called the Jewish community "a family, an expanded family to be sure and...

 

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