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“THERE IS A MISGUIDED ELEMENT IN THE GENTILE CHURCH , WHO UNDERSTANDABLY DISGUSTED WITH WHAT THEY
SEE AS THE DISTORTED CHRISTIANITY OF THE CONTEMPORARY CHURCH… MONEY PREACHERS ETC…

IN REACTION DESIRE TO RETURN TO THE SOURCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, WHICH IS BIBLICALLY AND
HISTORICALLY A PRIMORDIAL JEWISH FAITH. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY ARRIVE AT THE ABRUPT CONCLUSION THAT

ANYTHING MESSIANIC MUST BE RIGHT, WHEN IN FACT
THERE IS AS MUCH LUNACY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION IN THE VARIOUS STRANDS OF THE MESSIANIC

MOVEMENT AS THERE ARE IN ANY OTHER COMPONENT OF THE BODY OF CHRIST.”

http://www.moriel.org/articles/sermons/new_galatians.htm

I need to stress the point that the contents of this newsletter is not meant to be an overall
condemnation of the Messianic Movement. There are Messianic ministries with foundations that are
not diametrically opposed to the basic tenants of Christianity. These are ministries that were founded
with a dedicated purpose of taking the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jew as Paul instructed in Romans
1:16. In addition to the more well-known Jews For Jesus or The Christian Jew Foundation, you can find

a list of such-like grace-centered Messianic ministries by researching either

“The Messianic Literary Corner” (http://www.messianic-literary.com/)
or “The Association of Messianic Congregations” (http://www.messianicassociation.org/)

However, if you search the internet for “Messianic movements” you will find quite a long variation of
listings. It certainly is not as big a list as you would find by searching “Protestant denominations of
mainline Christianity,” but I found a host of different varieties of Messianic movements. However, the
two predominant self-emphasized themes under which most of them can be divided is:

““GGRRAACCEE--CCEENNTTEERREEDD (Type in these very phrases and you will find a list of ““TTOORRAAHH-C-CEENNTTEERREEDD
MMEESSSSIIAANNIICC individual Messianic ministries that have banded MMEESSSSIAIANNICIC
together under these titles.)
MMOOVVEEMMEENNTTSS”” MMOOVVEEMMEENNTTSS””

MESSIANIC FORMS In the beginning of the Messianic MESSIANIC FORMS
OF CHRISTIANITY movement, Gentile Christians were drawn OF JUDAISM
to those ministries that were in harmony
(FOUNDATIONS with the tenets of Christianity. Presently, ( FOUNDATIONS
IN HARMONY WITH IN HARMONY WITH
THE BASIC TENETS that influx of Christians has shifted to THE BASIC TENETS
OF CHRISTIANITY) Messianic ministries and congregations that
are in harmony with the tenets of Judaism, OF JUDAISM)

namely, to be “Torah-observant.”
This is the same deception Satan tried to

get the apostles to endorse in Acts 15
(see page 1 again)

Below is part of an article posted on “The Messianic Literary Corner“ which is a Messianic ministry that
states its purpose as “…taking a strong stand for the Gospel of Grace and providing a defense for the

teachings that are sometimes ignored in the Messianic community.”
As a pastor, I appreciate the fact that segments of the Messianic community seek to address its own

doctrinal problems. The Christian church has great need to do likewise.
Consider carefully these excerpts:

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