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Choosing the wrong cultural specialist as their
mentor, ministers
to Jewish people have in the past typically tried to mimic Moshiach's
Shliach to the Goyim (Sha'ul or Paul) and have largely ignored his highly
successful (cf. Acts
21:20) cultural counterpart, Moshiach's Shliach to the Jews (James or
Ya'akov). Are you unaware that there was this cultural specialization in
Moshiach's Shlichus? Have you never meditated on Galatians 2:9b? Is it your
theological contention that outreach strategy as conceived by Scripture
contains no cultural realism and that glatt-kosher, Shtreimel-wearing
Chassidim MUST be reached with the same hill-billy music and cowboy hats
and Pork-barbeque open-air Gospel fests that you use to do outreach to
Ozark moonshiners? Duh?
This is your doctrine? What about this kind of preaching? (Note:
requires high speed access.)
Ya'akov ben Yosef was concerned that
no "irksome restrictions" (Acts 15:19) be imposed on former Goyim coming
to faith. In Acts chapter 15 the non-Jewish followers of Moshiach are given directives
which remind us of the Seven Laws of Noah, but are found in Leviticus
chapter 17 and 18 and relate to the nations, the formerly heathen
believers. Every effort is being made to keep from adding any "too
burdensome" condition to their salvation, but at the same time every
effort is made to facilitate table fellowship with Torah-observant
messianic Jewish believers. On this see Leviticus chapters 17 and 18 for
Torah commandments the "strangers" or Gentiles in the Land observed along
with the Jewish people, commandments from the Torah that were preached in
shul every Shabbos and which were relevant to Gentiles coming into the
Kehillah of Moshiach. These commandments are referenced in Acts chapter 15
by Ya'akov Bar Yosef Ben Dovid. But if he was concerned that no "irksome
restrictions" (Acts 15:19) be imposed on non-Jews, he also would have been
concerned to have no "irksome restrictions" placed on him and the
Jerusalem Messianic Synagogue of which he was the mashgiach ruchani
(spiritual overseer). Can you imagine Ya'akov's reaction if some Goyim had
told his congregation they could no longer practice the bris milah or be
shomer Shabbos? You don't have to imagine. Just read Acts 21:20-21, where we
find that the early Jewish talmidim (disciples) of Moshiach were shomer
mitzvot, and where we see Ya'akov was quick to correct the lashon hora
some were speaking against the Shliach Sha'ul, falsely accusing Sha'ul of
teaching Jewish people they had to become shmad and abandon the bris milah
and the minhagim (customs) of the Jewish people in order to follow the
Moshiach. Unfortunately, the dismal history of ministry to Jewish people
has been the largely futile effort to impose the irksome restrictions of
Goyishe culture on Jews. Instead of helping plant and lead Brit Chadasha
Kehillot, authentic Messianic Synagogues with integrity and relevance for
the Jewish people like the Shliach Ya'akov (James) did in Jerusalem,
ministers to Jewish people typically function as unwitting modern
"Gentilizers," trying to persuade Jews to assimilate into Goyishe cultural
life-style - a betrayal the Jewish community understandably resists as the
self-destruction and spiritual genocide of Jews as a people. In a Jewish
neighborhood, Messiah's people must become like Jewish people to win
Jewish people (I Cor.
9:20-21), remembering that Moshiach came to bring life to Jewish
people, not cultural death. Moshiach came to give them new
spiritual life, not change them from Jews into Goyim. This is
axiomatic and fundamental. When a congregation of Messiah's people finds
herself in a Jewish community she must not shrink from wearing once again
her full Jewish dress, all her old First Century synagogue attire. For
local communities of Messiah's people in Jewish communities to remain
inflexibly groomed for Goyim and then demand that Jews convert to Gentile
ways of life and worship in order for Jewish people to accept their own
Moshiach is the horrific, condemnable, ancient Judaizing heresy in
reverse, and must not be tolerated. We do not add conditions to salvation!
We do not say to a glatt-kosher Hasid that unless he eats a bacon,
lettuce, and tomatoe sandwich, he cannot be saved! The ignorant Goyim are
doing the same thing to the Jews that the ignorant Galatian Jews did to
the Galatian Goyim, adding conditions to the free grace of G-d's
salvation. The Messianic Synagogue is the great mother Kehillah of all
kehillot, not a specimen of Judaizing. You don't agree? Well then take off
your gentile, latently anti-Semitic spectacles and take another look at
the Bible. Or argue with
James 2:2 or Ya'akov 2:2. Do you not understand that there had to be a
cultural specialization in the work of Moshiach's emissaries, some going
to the Jews (Gal 2:7b)
to preach and celebrate the Besuras HaGeulah in a Jewish way and some
going to the non-Jews, preaching and celebrating the Besuras HaGeulah in a
way that was understandable to non-Jews (Gal 2:7a)? See Ya 2:2.
