30
Mar
Passover
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by AJ on 30-03-2010
Shalom, Beloved!
Happy Passover!! The Pesach (Passover) special presentation is now up for free download.
Blessings and Shalom
AJ
10
Mar
Shalom All!
Yes, I know it’s been a while. And I’m sorry. Recently everyone around here where I live is excited as we will be enjoying and participating in our community’s second annual ShalomFest! This is a great opportunity as a Jewish believer to go and fellowship with my non-believing Jewish friends.
My son-in-law Daniel e-mailed a member of a local Messianic congregation to see when they would be showing up at the “Fest.” The woman e-mailed Daniel back and told him that they were not sure if they could go because their rabbi Todd had not yet been invited! You see, Todd Lesser, who now allows himself to be called rabbi, required members to sign a loyalty oath to him in order to become a member or to continue to be a member of Adon Olam congregation after he took part in the ouster of our actual rabbi Paul Cohen. (KOOL AID ANYONE?) ShalomFest is a public event to share in our Jewish heritage.
Now, if you are not Jewish, maybe it’s understandable. But when a guy who allows himself to be called rabbi and claims to be a Jewish believer forbids anyone in his congregation to attend a Jewish-themed festival because he did not get an invitation strikes me as just weird, controlling, or both!
I hear that many Messianic congregations are mostly comprised of gentile believers in Yeshua anyway. Are not we as Jewish believers supposed to go and witness to our non-believing brethren? Doesn’t the book of Romans in the New Covenant (B’rit Hadashah) tell us to go and witness to the Jew first and then to the Gentile (Greek) for the purpose of redemption? Now then, if you ask me (and someone did), I say that if one is going to try and witness to a Jew about Yeshua, shouldn’t one try to learn a little about who we Jewish people are first?!
Come to ShalomFest, and enjoy your time there!
Shalom and Blessings!
AJ
