How to Witness to Jews

[Abiding in His Word]

Excellent site with answers to many objections one might face in witnessing to Jews:

http://www.sidroth.org/site/PageServer? ... hquestions

[LONGINGFORHOME]

Abiding,
Thank you so much for posting this link--I will try to use this info when I get a chance--below is an excerpt from an email I sent my Mom(sent her the link as well).

I talked to Moshe G******G(executive with INTEL Fab28 in Kiryat Gat) for a few hours while we were stuck in Phoenix(delayed flight) , he noticed that I was reading John Hagee's book ' In defense of Israel' --I didn't tell him I was picking out the errors in it. I think he noticed the star of David on the cover. I used the opportunity to talk to him about Israels wars and how apparent it was that God is on their side in every conflict. He started to thumb thru my book and noticed that it quoted old testament prophecies about Israel. I saw him look at the pictures of Hagee and Menachem Begin-Moshe had met Menachem years earlier. I then turned the conversation to how modern Israel has fulfilled prophecy by its very existence, what the bible has to say about the future of Israel and why I believe that Jesus was the messiah. He was very polite and receptive, he gave me his Intel email acct info and asked me to keep on touch.
Please ask your church to keep this man in your prayers, he currently lives on Israel not too far from Kiryat Gat near Ashkelon, the terrorists in Gaza have only recently been able to target parts of Ashkelon with their rocket attacks.
I will have 2 more weeks to work on the 3 guys from Fab28, Please keep Eytan, Asah, and Moshe( another Moshe from the one mentioned above) in your prayers as well. I intend to use every available opportunity to witness to them, they are extremely receptive to talks on Creation Science--I use Real Science to open them up to the truth of the Gospel, then when they see that the Bible can stand up to scientific scrutiny, they listen more readily to what I have to say about Israels future according to prophecy.

Patrick

[Finaldash]

I shared with 2 sets of Jewish couples today at my shop at separate times. They saw my messianic seal necklace and the Holy Spirit took over from there.
Romans 11:11But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

[Abiding in His Word]

Think how many other Jews those might reach....

[LONGINGFORHOME]

I haven't updated on how it is going with my friends in Israel, I have been staying in touch with 2Moshes, Asaf, Eytan, Tamir, Lior, Chaim, David and Shimon. The 2 Moshes are coming along fairly well, asking me more and more questions. I have directed them to several good churches and both have went. I correspond regularly with all of the names listed above, pray the Holy Spirit will work on them further. I love these guys like brothers. Please pray for their safety and that of their families.
Patrick

[Abiding in His Word]

Thanks for the update, Patrick! Will continue to remember your ministry to them in prayer.

[LONGINGFORHOME]

Thank you, your prayers are definitely appreciated. That reminds me I was watching a video, I think it was "Sunday" by tree63 and it showed a bunch of church billboards on the vid. One of them said " Prayer, the best wireless connection" That just stuck in my mind.
with gratitude,
Patrick

[WhiteH2OWoman]

Praying for them, Patrick, and for you, too, that the Lord will continue to use you in this wonderful way!

I belong to Zion, the Messianic Jewish congregation in Austin (http://www.tzion.org), and four of our people just got back from a 2-week trip to Israel where they did intercessory prayer all over the place. One of them is a Rabbi who has been to Israel before, and he said that this time, he noticed that Jewish hearts were starting to soften (!!!!!!!!!!)

So, let's keep after it!

Just finished reading a witnessing book, "You Bring The Bagels, I'll Bring The Gospel". One new thing I learned from it was that witnessing to Jews takes more than just showing them the Tanakh/Old Testament prophecies about Jesus/Yeshua. They said that many Reform Jews don't even believe that the Bible is the word of God, and don't believe in the personal nature of Messiah...they believe in a Messianic Age. So for those people, we have 3 hurdles to overcome, not just one.

Was also interesting to read in that book how both Reform Judaism and liberal Christian theology sprang from the German Higher Criticism movement, which bordered on heresy. They said that prior to the 1850's or so, all Judaism was Orthodox, and I think pretty much all Christianity was conservative.