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| '''Jews for Jesus''' is an ] ] organization founded in ] by ] with a goal of converting ] to a belief in ]. It is |
'''Jews for Jesus''' is an ] ] organization founded in ] by ] with a goal of converting ] to a belief in ]. It is a well-known form of "]". | ||
| Members of Jews for Jesus consider themselves to be Jews. Some of their members are actually considered Jewish by Jewish law, as some members were were born to Jewish mothers, or converted to Judaism before becoming Christians. Many of their members, however, are not Jewish by any Jewish understanding of the term. Some evangelical Chrisitans believe that believeing thast one is a Jew makes one a Jew, and Jews for Jesus contains a large number of self-proclaimed Jews. | |||
| Their official mission statement is "to make the ]ship of ] an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide," and the organization claims to be "one of the most extensive ] outreaches to Jewish people in the world today." They have also sent their members to the ] and ]. | Their official mission statement is "to make the ]ship of ] an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide," and the organization claims to be "one of the most extensive ] outreaches to Jewish people in the world today." They have also sent their members to the ] and ]. | ||
| According to its Executive Director, Jews for Jesus has many non-Jews in administrative and staff positions but deploys "only front-line missionaries who are Jewish or married to Jews." However, some of the missionaries identify themselves as Jewish when in fact only their spouse, father, or grandfather is Jewish, so many of their missionaries would not be considered Jews in the communities they evangelize. | |||
| Jews for Jesus is rejected as un-Jewish by the entire organzied ], including both secular and religious Jewish organizations. It is held to be Christianity in disguise, which uses deception as a way to convert Jews to Christianity. See the article on ] for a fuller discussion of this topic. | |||
| Jews for Jesus is rejected as un-Jewish by Orthodox, Conversative, Reform, and Reconstructionist ] and even by other messianic Jewish groups. Its critics charge that Jews for Jesus is Jewish in name only due to the organization's lack of Torah observance and a statement of faith indistiguishable from those of other Evangelical para-church groups. | |||
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==External links== | ||
| * http://www.jewsforjesus.org/ | * http://www.jewsforjesus.org/ | ||
| * http://www.jfjonline.com/ | |||
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Jews for Jesus is an Evangelical Protestant organization founded in 1973 by Moishe Rosen with a goal of converting Jews to a belief in Christianity. It is a well-known form of "messianic Judaism".
Their official mission statement is "to make the messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide," and the organization claims to be "one of the most extensive evangelistic outreaches to Jewish people in the world today." They have also sent their members to the Ukraine and Russia.
According to its Executive Director, Jews for Jesus has many non-Jews in administrative and staff positions but deploys "only front-line missionaries who are Jewish or married to Jews." However, some of the missionaries identify themselves as Jewish when in fact only their spouse, father, or grandfather is Jewish, so many of their missionaries would not be considered Jews in the communities they evangelize.
Jews for Jesus is rejected as un-Jewish by Orthodox, Conversative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Judaism and even by other messianic Jewish groups. Its critics charge that Jews for Jesus is Jewish in name only due to the organization's lack of Torah observance and a statement of faith indistiguishable from those of other Evangelical para-church groups.
See also: