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The Relationship of Jew and Non-Jew in God?s Covenant
A response by Russ Resnik
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The terms "Messianic Jew" and "Messianic Judaism" have been used ever more broadly over the past quarter century, so that today they apply to widely diverse groups and individuals. As an organization bringing together a good number of such groups, the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC) set out three years ago to develop a definition of what we mean by these terms.

A response to Baruch Maoz, of pastor of Grace and Truth Church in RishonLeTsion, Israel.
by Dr. Mark Kinzer, leader of UMJC Congregation Zera Avraham in Ann Arbor, Michigan and President of Messianic Jewish Theological Institute.

In his recent volume, Judaism Is Not Jewish, Baruch Maoz provides a notable service for the Messianic Jewish movement by drawing the distinction between Jewish Christianity and Messianic Judaism in a clear and unambiguous fashion, and challenging Yeshua-believing Jews to make a decision between the two. He further serves the movement by accurately pointing out many of the deficiencies of the Messianic movement in the diaspora. But he also bestows an unintended gift on the Messianic Jewish movement: a theological attack whose weakness renders Messianic Judaism more rather than less credible.

An Official Paper of the UMJC
The issue is not whether Gentiles should or must become Jews to attain full status in the Body of Messiah. All Messianic Jews agree this issue was settled by the Apostles and Elders in Jerusalem in C.E. 49 (Acts 15). Believers from among the nations were not required to accept the yoke of the Torah, but only the basic biblical principles referred to as the Seven Laws of Noah in the rabbinic literature. The issue is whether or not it should be possible for willing Gentile believers to identify more closely with the Jewish people by voluntarily converting to Messianic or some other expression of Judaism.

Statement on the Identity of Yeshua:
[The following is adopted as a statement of shared convictions which is intended as an introduction for a further discussion of soteriology (the doctrine of salvation). It does not replace or substitute for any part of our doctrinal statement, which is the foundational statement of the UMJC.]