GordoZone

It is no more fair for a Jew to say that a Christian serves three gods than it is for a Christian to proclaim that the Jew is trying to work his way to heaven through Torah law.

For the Jew needs the Christian and the Christian needs the Jew.

It was the Jews to whom the holy God of all revealed himself publicly and in all His glory.  Millions of Jews witnessed the revelation.  It was not a secret epiphany to a person on some solitary pilgrimage only to come out of the woods and proclaim a new religion.  An entire nation bore witness.

It was a Jew through whom the holy God of all revealed himself publicly to all mankind, taking a new angle on Jews being a light to the world.  Gentiles of all stripe ran to the truth of Jesus to find the holy God of all that they had not encountered before in such an intimate and personal way.  Many, many Jews did, too.

The Messiah, the mitzvot — both aim to point us to the holy God of all creation.  Neither serves itself.  Both serve to bring us home.

The Jew and the Christian both find salvation through faith.  Both worship the holy God of all creation.  Both seek the Messiah’s presence on this earth.  Neither have all the answers.

Common ground isn’t a no-man’s land, but is the foundation of power from which this world can change.  Jews must know that the Christian doesn’t love the Jew out of some selfish devotion to the book of Revelation, but that it’s a genuine attachment to the direct connection to God through His chosen people.

To deny the Jew is to deny the very foundation of our understanding of God.  To deny the Christian is to deny God’s promise to make Abraham’s seed as numerous as the stars in the heavens and the sands on the seashore.

Reach out to each other.  Share.  Love.

Peace.