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That they May Be One: A Brief Review of Church Restoration Movements and Their Connection to the Jewish People
Dr. Juster describes the restoration movements in Church history and how they are connected to Israel and the Jewish people; as this is the plan of God and finds its full expression in Messianic Judaism.
97 pages, Paperback
First published November 28, 2009
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Daniel C. Juster
23 books6 followersDaniel Juster (1947 – ) is an author and advocate of Messianic Judaism. He has served in the Messianic Jewish movement since 1972
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August 10, 2014
A brief, excellent overview of church history and the decline and restoration of the church. After reading I really felt grateful for the fresh perspective of my identity in Christ as a gentile believer. And the book presents a picture of the church's consequences of having cut herself off from her Jewish roots. I loved his point that the blessing that comes from honoring your parents is a corporate principle too. Since I didn't have the opportunity to learn about church history in grade school (or any other time), I just loved learning (without having to dive into 1000 pages of details). Plus I'd rather learn church history from Juster's wise perspective, he has more insight than many of the big fat church history textbooks anyway!
August 28, 2018
The author accomplished a great feat--condensing 2000 yrs of church history into fewer than 100 pages, and so succinct! Chapters 6&7 inform the reader about the origins of the various current terms used to describe a believer's experience of coming to faith. The many streams of theology have invented various glossaries of faith.
Because of the brevity of this work some things go unexplained, such as on pg 9. How does the author have James saying in his quote from Amos, "... why can't Jew & Gentile become one before the Age to Come ...?" But of course, he rightly connects Repentance for everyone with the coming Kingdom. Repentance is imperative.
He does not define "church". It would have been accurate had he used “assembly” or “congregation” for the Greek 'ecclesia'. "Church" is a word that came into being centuries later and today it prompts us to think of “Church” as an institution that, in some thinking, replaces Israel. Paul's "Gospel" was revolutionary because Yeshua's death and resurrection opened the way for Gentiles to be “fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel”. (Eph. 3) Indeed, the Gospel is Jewish. As the author says, "The apostles saw the body of believers as the commonwealth of Israel." But something happened, many things happened, to tear us away from the Torah that Yeshua kept, and to make the branch "boast" over the root.
The author ends with signs of hope that for the most part are a continuation of movements of one sort or another. But on page 89 he describes the key aspects of expressing the Jewish Roots of the Gospel; first is to separate out the Greek influences in Christian thought, and then to correctly understand Torah. Very important!
Because of the brevity of this work some things go unexplained, such as on pg 9. How does the author have James saying in his quote from Amos, "... why can't Jew & Gentile become one before the Age to Come ...?" But of course, he rightly connects Repentance for everyone with the coming Kingdom. Repentance is imperative.
He does not define "church". It would have been accurate had he used “assembly” or “congregation” for the Greek 'ecclesia'. "Church" is a word that came into being centuries later and today it prompts us to think of “Church” as an institution that, in some thinking, replaces Israel. Paul's "Gospel" was revolutionary because Yeshua's death and resurrection opened the way for Gentiles to be “fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel”. (Eph. 3) Indeed, the Gospel is Jewish. As the author says, "The apostles saw the body of believers as the commonwealth of Israel." But something happened, many things happened, to tear us away from the Torah that Yeshua kept, and to make the branch "boast" over the root.
The author ends with signs of hope that for the most part are a continuation of movements of one sort or another. But on page 89 he describes the key aspects of expressing the Jewish Roots of the Gospel; first is to separate out the Greek influences in Christian thought, and then to correctly understand Torah. Very important!
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