Addressing the Theological and Spiritual Issues of the Broad Messianic Movement
John McKee delivers the August 2026 Outreach Israel News update. How do some of the congregations or assemblies, appearing mainly in the Pauline epistles—compare to some of today’s Messianic congregations and assemblies? What important points or lessons are to be taken from a review of them?
The Messianic Jewish movement that has grown and been emerging in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries has achieved much for the Kingdom of God, which it should be genuinely proud of. It has made a significant, positive contribution in the lives of many Jewish men and women who have come to saving faith in the Messiah of Israel, giving them a place where they do not have to assimilate and give up their Jewishness.
Perhaps an unforeseen side-effect is that it has also made a significant, positive contribution in the lives of many non-Jewish, evangelical Christian men and women, who have come to know the Jewishness of Jesus and the New Testament in a much more profound and tangible way. Many of these people have entered into the Messianic movement and its congregations, and have made a Torah obedient lifestyle their own, as they seek to emulate Messiah Yeshua. As we continue to see various developments occur within a broad Messianic community, which in the 2010s includes both Messianic Judaism and various other independent forms of Messianic and/or Hebrew/Hebraic Roots faith expressions, the question of how non-Jewish Believers relate to Israel—especially given the end-time reality of the nations coming to Zion to be taught God’s Law (Micah 4:1-3; Isaiah 2:2-4), and those of the nations joining with the Jewish people (Zechariah 8:23)—is undeniably going to increase.
John McKee delivers the January 2026 Outreach Israel News update. What are some of the controversies, needing to be fairly sorted through, from Romans 9:23-29? How have Paul’s claims been taken in some inappropriate directions by others? This teaching is then followed with some excerpts from the Messianic Apologetics Second Statement, on: the worldwide Body of Messiah, replacement theology/supersessionism, Messianic Judaism, One Law/One Torah Theology, and Two-House Theology.
John McKee delivers the December 2025 Outreach Israel News update. 1 Peter 2:9-11 has significant Tanach intertextuality as it concerns descriptions of Ancient Israel applied to both Jewish and non-Jewish Believers in Israel’s Messiah. How does this specifically affect our understanding of the people of God?
John McKee delivers the November 2025 Outreach Israel News update. What is actually communicated by the Tabernacle of David, and what it details about the Kingdom of God? This analysis is then followed with a teaching on “Headcovering Garments.”
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses some of the controversies caused by the terminology “Israel of God” in Galatians 6:16.
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews the concept of the Commonwealth of Israel, as witnessed in Ephesians 2:11-13. What are some of the ways this has been approached within today’s Messianic movement?
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
John McKee delivers the October 2025 Outreach Israel News update. Was it the Messiah’s intention in Matthew 16:18 to establish a new assembly of elect—or actually to restore Israel? This analysis is then followed with a teaching on “The Message of Ephesians.”
Can you help me sort through what is circulating as “distinction theology,” in various parts of the Messianic movement?
