Addressing the Theological and Spiritual Issues of the Broad Messianic Movement
John McKee delivers the February 2026 Outreach Israel News update. What important lessons are there from Ephesians 4:29? How many of us heard this passage quoted so many times, that we often fail to sort through its significance—especially for a faith community like ours, which faces so many difficulties?
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.”
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews the significance of Paul’s Epistle of Ephesians, providing a theological and composition summary.
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 issue of what is commonly termed “male headship” from Ephesians 5:23. What are some of the differences between those who hold to complementarianism, versus those who hold to egalitarianism? Is it indeed possible that the term kephalē does not mean “authority,” but instead “source” or “origin”?
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 Ephesians 2:15b, and specifically what it meant for the Messiah to abolish “the law of commandments in ordinances.” Was this actually the Torah or Law of Moses? Or was this some kind of a man-made or artificial law, passing itself off as “torah,” which needed to be abrogated?
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 Ephesians 2:11-13, and the specific claim that non-Jewish Believers are somehow “former Gentiles.”
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
How can your ministry be egalitarian, meaning that both men and women share leadership roles equally, when Scripture says that the man is to be the head of the woman (Ephesians 5:23)?
In examining some Messianic Jewish teaching materials, they explained to me that the Commonwealth of Israel is made up of both the Jewish people and the Church, sort of like the British Commonwealth. They have actually said that as a non-Jewish Believer, I am really not a part of Israel, only the Commonwealth. Does this viewpoint have any legitimacy?
The Apostle Paul said how Believers were not to be justified, or reckoned as a part of God’s people, via “works of law.” Instead, as it has been commonly quoted to us, we are brought into relationship with God “through faith in Christ Jesus.” We have to place our trust in what Yeshua did for us on the tree at Golgotha, performing what Romans 10:9 tells people to do: “if you confess with your mouth Yeshua as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (NASU). It seems pretty straightforward, right?
