What is a Messianic Jew?

What do Messianic Jews believe? How do Messianic Jews live and worship? Join us on Two Messianic Jews as we share with you the definition of a Messianic Jew, the core beliefs of the Messianic Jewish community, and the common ways Messianic Jews live and worship. In the end, I share how we view ourselves within the Jewish community and within the Body of Messiah.

00:00 - Definition of 'Messianic Jew'
5:18 - What a Messianic Jew is NOT
7:52 - What Messianic Jews believe
12:12 - How Messianic Jews live and worship

About some key New Testament texts for Messianic Jews, Dr. David Rudolph says, "Messianic Jews referred to their religious tradition as 'Messianic Judaism,' a term that implicitly called into question the traditional narrative of the first-century parting of the ways between Judaism and 'Christianity.' It is important to recognize that Messianic Judaism challenged fundamental theological assumptions about the nature of the ecclesia and argued on the basis of New Testament texts - primarily Acts 15; 21.17-26; and 1 Corinthians 7.17-24 - that Yeshua-believing Jews had a continuing responsibility before God to live as Jews. Messianic Judaism took exception to eighteen hundred years of Gentile Christian theology and exegesis that precluded reading the New Testament in this way." From Introduction to Messianic Judaism, 27 (emphasis his).

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Bibliography:

Adat Hatikvah Messianic Synagogue Statement of Faith

Baruch Hashem Messianic Synagogue Statement of Faith

David Rudolph, "Messianic Judaism in Antiquity and in the Modern Era," in Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Its Ecclesial Context and Biblical Foundations, 21-36.

Jacob Rosenberg, "History and Practices in the Messianic Jewish Movement," in Messianic Jewish Orthodoxy: The Essence of Our Faith, History and Best Practices, 225-40.

Richard Harvey, Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology: A Constructive Approach.

Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations Definition of Messianic Judaism

Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations Statement of Faith

International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues Statement of Faith

Yaakov Ariel, "Messianic Judaism," in Jewish Annotated New Testament, 2nd. Ed. 756-59.

Yaakov Ariel, “A Different Kind of Dialogue?: Messianic Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations,” in CrossCurrents 243 (September 2012): 318-327.

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