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Top 10 Things People Say On Their First Visit To A Messianic Congregation
The Top Ten Things People Say When They First Come to a Messianic Congregation
10. "Hey, my prayer book is going backwards."
9. "Isn't it impolite to sleep when the minister is talking?"
8. “Why do people keep coming in late? Don’t they know what time it starts?”
7. "I get the standing and the sitting; when do we kneel?”
6. "Does your prayer book have writing in a funny looking alphabet,
too?"
5. "Where can I get one of those Meeka Mocha Cappucinos you're all singing about?”
4. “Why does everyone have a question right in the middle of the singing?”
3. “You mean it’s not over yet?”
2. "What's with the little beanies?"
1. "Hey, I remember this part from 'Fiddler on the Roof'!"
D. Thomas Lancaster
Tammuz 26, 5767
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Visitor Feedback:
"So, Are you Jewish?"
Kim | July 12, 2007 9:35 AM
"Am I gonna get thrown out if I disagree with #2 on your doctrinal statement?"
MJ Belko | July 12, 2007 4:06 PM
Wow...you have a potluck EVERY week?
aaron | July 13, 2007 11:28 AM
So, what are those strings hanging from your belt?
Renee | July 15, 2007 7:28 PM
I'm turning 53 this fall...just discovered the deep family secret, through the National Geographic Genographic Project...I'm Jewish. Most Ashkenazi Jews can trace lineage back to one of 4 founding women...mine traces back to 3 out of 4. This explains so much to me: why I've been so blessed with the grace of G_d/why I've always been drawn to Jewish people and things,including a desire to join a Messianic Congregation/and explains something G_d spoke to me 10yrs. ago. Ten years ago, I heard, "I will make strange provision" (3 times), then, "I will name you 'Judah'. I brought you out, I will take you in". Isn't that amazing? You can't even imagine how much this means to me.
Judah-Grace | July 19, 2007 2:11 PM
For Judah-Grace July 19, 2007...my God have great mercy on you. I will be praying for you now for a long time to come. I too am 53 and found out the same, "the family secret" of being Jewish over 20 years ago. You have the great and awful privilege of experiencing what those raised Jewish all their lives know. But the persectutions will be new to you. And you will be an adult. You may intercede humanly and to our common God in ways not all can. Because it is new to you. And so horrid when you are new to being treated so strangely from what being one of the many, the majority. I would not have chosen it if I'd known what was coming. But I would not give away the privilege of being His in every way there is now. As I said before, God bless. And you will now be in my prayers. Amen.
Angela Davis | July 22, 2007 9:17 PM
Judah-Grace, The joy of the Lord will be your strength.
I did not catch it the first time this was for Visitors only after their first time to a Messianic service. I went to one once. They used to have a Messianic congragation in a suburb nearby us but not one in this so called big "second most racialy diverse city in the USA." I wonder if they had to make sure that was true before saying it all over town and printing it on municipal papers. So, I did get to go to one Messianic service one time when back when I had a car. Buses do not run out there on weekends. Doesn't matter now. They moved on out to the boondocks. Couldn't get there if I wanted to. I didn't notice any of those 10 things at that one. Most of the "ten most" don't make any sense to me except for the one about the fringes. That one was unexpected and I'd never seen a Torah scroll. Took me a bit and some silent screaming prayer to God as to this thing that was circling the room and folks were going over and kissing it! Had everything in me on high alert until the Holy Spirit calmed me down that it wasn't at all as weird as my eyeballs were telling me it was. I'd been having to attend "Churches" until then and have (still) never been to synagogue either. But God does not "forsake though..."
God is good. He is good.
Angela Davis | July 22, 2007 9:59 PM
****Most Ashkenazi Jews can trace lineage back to one of 4 founding women...mine traces back to 3 out of 4*****
what four women and how can national geographic trace geneology to specific people?
:) curious!
Yafeh | July 25, 2007 1:26 AM
After studying the seven covenants of God has given me such strength an boldness. Knowing that the Lord Yeshua keeps his promises towards us deserving or not.
THE BEANY, I don't think that is in the Torah. I would think it rather presumptuous for me as a gentile and insulting to the Jewish community to run around dressed like an Orthadox Jew.
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Again, for Messianic believers why the beanie?
John Cornelsen | July 25, 2007 9:42 AM