Messianic Apologetics

Addressing the Theological and Spiritual Issues of the Broad Messianic Movement

Messianic Judaism

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reflects on the October 2009 edition of Outreach Israel News: “Is God’s Purpose Bigger?”

As I have interacted with many Messianic Believers, Jewish and non-Jewish, over the years, they instinctively feel that a time is going to have to come where we move beyond the things which have held us back. Many people honestly do throw their hands up in the air and ask, “What happened to the love and grace of Yeshua? What happened to the work of the Holy Spirit? Where is God really leading us?”

Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews Romans 16:4, and its reference to “the assemblies of the nations.” Was this a separate group within the Body of Messiah, as promoted by some supporters of a bilateral ecclesiology? Or was this reference geographical, “the assemblies among the nations”?