Description: The Messianic Movement arose out of a desire to promote the Gospel among the Jews but what has emerged is a movement that is in some ways neither Jewish nor Christian, and that has failed in its original purpose. Most Jewish Christians do not belong to the movement and Jews are not attracted by it. This critique shows where the movement has compromised leading to the present situation.
Brief description: Baruch Maoz served for thirty-three years as pastor of Grace and Truth Christian Congregation near Tel Aviv and field leader for Christian Witness to Israel. He is senior editor of the Modern Hebrew Bible, coeditor of the Annotated Hebrew New Testament, and founder and former coeditor of Mishkan: An International Theological Forum on Jewish Evangelism.
Review Quotes: "This is a supremely helpful analysis of Messianic Judaism and a host of biblical questions raised by that controversial movement. To what degree is it appropriate for Jewish believers in Jesus to preserve Jewish ceremonies and rabbinical traditions in their worship? Baruch Maoz is uniquely qualified to write on the subject, and he has done so with a charitable tone and point-by-point thoroughness that will benefit people on all sides of the controversy. I greatly appreciate his relentlessly biblical approach."--John MacArthur, President, The Master's University and Seminary