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15th June 2008, 10:03 PM
I was perusing a site called Toward Jerusalem Council II today and would be interested in different people's analysis of it.
An brief excerpt from the site's "No. 1" document/appendix, and link to the site:
http://www.tjcii.org/toward-jerusalem-council-ii-booklet-series.htm
"Toward Jerusalem Council II
The Gentile Response
As Gentile Christians, drawn from the Christian Churches and communities
of the nations, we hear the heart-cry for recognition and
fellowship from our Messianic Jewish brethren, as Jews who have
come to faith in Jesus as Lord, Savior and the Messiah of Israel, and
who seek to live this faith in communities whose worship, teaching
and life-style are distinctively Jewish.
We receive and identify with the vision that one day there will be a
Second Council of Jerusalem at which the leadership of the Church
of the nations (Ecclesia ex gentibus) will recognize and enter into
full fellowship with the resurrected Church of the Circumcision
(Ecclesia ex judaeis), annulling all decrees and legislation against the
Jewish expression of the Church.
We affirm afresh the New Testament vision of Ephesians 2, that the
Church is formed as one new man by the reconciliation of Jew and
Gentile in one body through the cross.
We recognize that for such a Council to take place, all the Gentile
Churches and traditions must be led by the Holy Spirit into a process
of prayer and purification, in which there would be a growing repentance
for:
♦ All preaching and teaching that God has revoked the covenant
with Israel thus denying the teaching of Romans 11:29.
♦ All enforced assimilation of Jewish believers into Gentile
communities, culture and ways of thought.
♦ All forms of anti-Semitism.
We believe that this reconciliation of Jewish and Gentile believers in
Christ will be a fulfillment of the prayer of Jesus in John 17:21 and
that it will add a new dynamic for unity between the Gentile believers.
We confidently hope that this work of reconciliation will unleash
a great wave of evangelism and the restoration of justice among
the divided peoples of the world.
We accept the invitation of our Jewish brothers to work for the
realization of this vision of reconciliation in Christ, and we commit
ourselves to spread this vision in all the Christian Churches and communities
of the nations.
October 25, 2000
Dallas, Texas"
An brief excerpt from the site's "No. 1" document/appendix, and link to the site:
http://www.tjcii.org/toward-jerusalem-council-ii-booklet-series.htm
"Toward Jerusalem Council II
The Gentile Response
As Gentile Christians, drawn from the Christian Churches and communities
of the nations, we hear the heart-cry for recognition and
fellowship from our Messianic Jewish brethren, as Jews who have
come to faith in Jesus as Lord, Savior and the Messiah of Israel, and
who seek to live this faith in communities whose worship, teaching
and life-style are distinctively Jewish.
We receive and identify with the vision that one day there will be a
Second Council of Jerusalem at which the leadership of the Church
of the nations (Ecclesia ex gentibus) will recognize and enter into
full fellowship with the resurrected Church of the Circumcision
(Ecclesia ex judaeis), annulling all decrees and legislation against the
Jewish expression of the Church.
We affirm afresh the New Testament vision of Ephesians 2, that the
Church is formed as one new man by the reconciliation of Jew and
Gentile in one body through the cross.
We recognize that for such a Council to take place, all the Gentile
Churches and traditions must be led by the Holy Spirit into a process
of prayer and purification, in which there would be a growing repentance
for:
♦ All preaching and teaching that God has revoked the covenant
with Israel thus denying the teaching of Romans 11:29.
♦ All enforced assimilation of Jewish believers into Gentile
communities, culture and ways of thought.
♦ All forms of anti-Semitism.
We believe that this reconciliation of Jewish and Gentile believers in
Christ will be a fulfillment of the prayer of Jesus in John 17:21 and
that it will add a new dynamic for unity between the Gentile believers.
We confidently hope that this work of reconciliation will unleash
a great wave of evangelism and the restoration of justice among
the divided peoples of the world.
We accept the invitation of our Jewish brothers to work for the
realization of this vision of reconciliation in Christ, and we commit
ourselves to spread this vision in all the Christian Churches and communities
of the nations.
October 25, 2000
Dallas, Texas"