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Evangelical leaders: Jews need Jesus Christ
Posted: Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 10:43 (BST)
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Dr Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of the World Evangelical Alliance
(Christian Today)
Dozens of prominent evangelical leaders have endorsed a statement declaring a fact that many Christians already hold to be true – that Jewish people need the Gospel and Jesus Christ to receive eternal life.
The statement, sponsored by the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), expressed friendship and love for the Jewish people, but unapologetically declared that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ.
“We want to make it clear that, as evangelical Christians, we do not wish to offend our Jewish friends by the above statements; but we are compelled by our faith and commitment to the Scriptures to stand by these principles,” read the evangelical statement on “The Gospel and the Jewish People”.
An ad with the statement appeared in the New York Times on March 28 and will appear in other major secular newspapers and several Christian magazines throughout April and May.
“It is out of our profound respect for Jewish people that we seek to share the good news of Jesus Christ with them, and encourage others to do the same, for we believe that salvation is only found in Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Savior of the World,” the statement continued.
Some of the key declarations made by the statement include:
• A pledge of commitment to be loving friends and to stand against injustices against the Jewish people. At the same time, affirming the belief that the most loving and Scriptural expression of friendship towards Jewish people, and anyone called a friend, is to candidly share the love of God in the person of Jesus Christ
• Affirming the belief that only through Jesus that all people can receive eternal life. If Jesus is not the Messiah of the Jewish people, He cannot be the Saviour of the World (Acts 4:12)
• Recognising that it is good and right for those with specialised knowledge, history and skills to use these gifts to introduce individuals to the Messiah, and that includes those ministries specifically directed to the Jewish people ( I Corinthians 9:20-22)
• Denouncing the use of deception of coercion in evangelism but rejecting the notion that it is deceptive for followers of Jesus Christ who were born Jewish to continue to identify as Jews (Romans 11:1)
“Increasingly, Jewish evangelism is being marginalised and even dismissed as irrelevant, inappropriate, unethical or deceptive by some segments of the church,” commented Dr Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of the WEA.
“This statement is an attempt to speak to the evangelical community about the biblical basis for sharing their faith with all people, including Jews.
“It is our hope that it will be received in the spirit it is intended by the non-evangelicals who see it,” he added.
Dr Tunnicliffe explained that the statement is made out of friendship and respect for the Jewish people, as well as out of a commitment to stand with the Jewish people who have suffered mistreatment “simply for being Jewish”.
“And that part of our friendship and care and respect is shown in our commitment to share the love of God in Christ whom we believe is their Saviour as well as ours,” he said.
Evangelical Christian leaders who affirmed the statement include the Rev Dr Lon Allison, director of the Billy Graham Center; Dr Mark Bailey, president of Dallas Theological Seminary; Doug Birdsall, executive chair of Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization; Dr. Yonggi Cho, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea; Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship; Dr Jerry B Jenkins, owner of Christian Writers Guild; Dr Haddon Robinson, president of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary; Gordon Showell-Rogers, General Secretary of European Evangelical Alliance; and Dr Lon Solomon, pastor of McLean Bible Church in McLean, Virginia, who is Jewish.
The World Evangelical Alliance is a 162-year-old global network of evangelical churches and organisations with members in 128 nations and claiming to represent more than 420 million evangelical Christians.
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Evangelical leaders: Jews need Jesus Christ
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Enlarge this pictureDr Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of the World Evangelical Alliance
(Christian Today)
Dozens of prominent evangelical leaders have endorsed a statement declaring a fact that many Christians already hold to be true – that Jewish people need the Gospel and Jesus Christ to receive eternal life.
The statement, sponsored by the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), expressed friendship and love for the Jewish people, but unapologetically declared that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ.
“We want to make it clear that, as evangelical Christians, we do not wish to offend our Jewish friends by the above statements; but we are compelled by our faith and commitment to the Scriptures to stand by these principles,” read the evangelical statement on “The Gospel and the Jewish People”.
An ad with the statement appeared in the New York Times on March 28 and will appear in other major secular newspapers and several Christian magazines throughout April and May.
“It is out of our profound respect for Jewish people that we seek to share the good news of Jesus Christ with them, and encourage others to do the same, for we believe that salvation is only found in Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and Savior of the World,” the statement continued.
Some of the key declarations made by the statement include:
• A pledge of commitment to be loving friends and to stand against injustices against the Jewish people. At the same time, affirming the belief that the most loving and Scriptural expression of friendship towards Jewish people, and anyone called a friend, is to candidly share the love of God in the person of Jesus Christ
• Affirming the belief that only through Jesus that all people can receive eternal life. If Jesus is not the Messiah of the Jewish people, He cannot be the Saviour of the World (Acts 4:12)
• Recognising that it is good and right for those with specialised knowledge, history and skills to use these gifts to introduce individuals to the Messiah, and that includes those ministries specifically directed to the Jewish people ( I Corinthians 9:20-22)
• Denouncing the use of deception of coercion in evangelism but rejecting the notion that it is deceptive for followers of Jesus Christ who were born Jewish to continue to identify as Jews (Romans 11:1)
“Increasingly, Jewish evangelism is being marginalised and even dismissed as irrelevant, inappropriate, unethical or deceptive by some segments of the church,” commented Dr Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of the WEA.
“This statement is an attempt to speak to the evangelical community about the biblical basis for sharing their faith with all people, including Jews.
“It is our hope that it will be received in the spirit it is intended by the non-evangelicals who see it,” he added.
Dr Tunnicliffe explained that the statement is made out of friendship and respect for the Jewish people, as well as out of a commitment to stand with the Jewish people who have suffered mistreatment “simply for being Jewish”.
“And that part of our friendship and care and respect is shown in our commitment to share the love of God in Christ whom we believe is their Saviour as well as ours,” he said.
Evangelical Christian leaders who affirmed the statement include the Rev Dr Lon Allison, director of the Billy Graham Center; Dr Mark Bailey, president of Dallas Theological Seminary; Doug Birdsall, executive chair of Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization; Dr. Yonggi Cho, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea; Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship; Dr Jerry B Jenkins, owner of Christian Writers Guild; Dr Haddon Robinson, president of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary; Gordon Showell-Rogers, General Secretary of European Evangelical Alliance; and Dr Lon Solomon, pastor of McLean Bible Church in McLean, Virginia, who is Jewish.
The World Evangelical Alliance is a 162-year-old global network of evangelical churches and organisations with members in 128 nations and claiming to represent more than 420 million evangelical Christians.
Shaun Buchhalter, facing camera, a staff missionary in New York for Jews for Jesus, offers encouragement before members proselytize.
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</NYT_BYLINE>Published: July 4, 2006
<NYT_TEXT>As part of what has become an annual summer rite, missionaries, many of them young people from across the country, are descending upon New York City, working in soup kitchens and spreading the word of God at street corners, parks and subway stations.
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Video: Jews for Jesus in New York But one group, Jews for Jesus, will be more visible than usual.
And so will those whom the group infuriates.
Jews for Jesus is a worldwide group based in San Francisco that adheres to an evangelical Christian theology but is made up of believers with Jewish lineage. It is sending 200 missionaries to the city for July, its biggest campaign in New York in its more than 30-year history. It is the finale of a five-and-a-half-year effort to conduct campaigns in every city in the world outside Israel with more than 25,000 Jews.
RICHARD DAWKINS STUMPED AT QUESTION OF INCREASE IN DNA:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zaKryi3605g
Richard Dawkins stumped when asked for an example of where a mutation increased the information content of a genome. Watch it for yourself.
The hidden truth is that creation and intelligent design scientists challege evolutionary scientists to public debate, but the evolutionist refuse to debate them out of fear. They can't answer many of the questions and it exposes their deception.
If Down's syndrome was his only example, he's really digging himself into a hole. The simple addition of one chromosome through a DNA copying error which results in a handicappped offspring does not constitute and increase in genetic information, but a decrease. What I'm saying is the the absolute number of total base pairs is not a measure of how much genetic information is there.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zaKryi3605g
Richard Dawkins stumped when asked for an example of where a mutation increased the information content of a genome. Watch it for yourself.
The hidden truth is that creation and intelligent design scientists challege evolutionary scientists to public debate, but the evolutionist refuse to debate them out of fear. They can't answer many of the questions and it exposes their deception.
If Down's syndrome was his only example, he's really digging himself into a hole. The simple addition of one chromosome through a DNA copying error which results in a handicappped offspring does not constitute and increase in genetic information, but a decrease. What I'm saying is the the absolute number of total base pairs is not a measure of how much genetic information is there.
Praise God for Jews for Jesus. What a wonderful thing!!! May the Lord bless them richely.
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Shaun Buchhalter, facing camera, a staff missionary in New York for Jews for Jesus, offers encouragement before members proselytize.
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<NYT_BYLINE type=" " version="1.0">By MICHAEL LUO
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<NYT_TEXT>As part of what has become an annual summer rite, missionaries, many of them young people from across the country, are descending upon New York City, working in soup kitchens and spreading the word of God at street corners, parks and subway stations.
Skip to next paragraph Multimedia
But one group, Jews for Jesus, will be more visible than usual.
And so will those whom the group infuriates.
Jews for Jesus is a worldwide group based in San Francisco that adheres to an evangelical Christian theology but is made up of believers with Jewish lineage. It is sending 200 missionaries to the city for July, its biggest campaign in New York in its more than 30-year history. It is the finale of a five-and-a-half-year effort to conduct campaigns in every city in the world outside Israel with more than 25,000 Jews.
hey frodo, what's your take on this.
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Actually, it means alot since the entire theory of Darwinian Evolution is based in the idea that genetic information increases, yet Dawkins couldn't even name one instance of it occuring because it has NEVER been observed to happen. It's the dirty little secret that they don't tell people. If there is no increase in DNA then it is impossible for one species to evolve into another which has also never been observed to happen. There are two types of evolution macro and micro. Macro is the darwinan evolution which is pushed on us and has never been observed to happen. Micro evolution is within the species and is admitted by Christians, creationists, Intelligent design scientists alike as occuring. When an evolutionist gives an example of evolution, they always have to use a micro evolutionary example because there are no examples of a species EVER evolving into another.
Yeah, but then the rabid Fundy Xtians poop on their own shoes when they start pitching the whole rap about the Earth being 6000 years old, Adam&Eve, NoahsArk and such.
The stunning fairy tale aspect of FundyChristian mythology makes me as a (nonFundy) Christian feel great relief in knowing that there are true scientists helping to educate us and move our collective knowledge forward in spite of the bleatings of OldTestament song and dancers.
The stunning fairy tale aspect of FundyChristian mythology makes me as a (nonFundy) Christian feel great relief in knowing that there are true scientists helping to educate us and move our collective knowledge forward in spite of the bleatings of OldTestament song and dancers.
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