From: Jacob Fronczak
Jacob Fronczak is a writer and teacher for FFOZ, has contributed to Messiah Journal, and is also engaged in special First Fruits projects.
Introduction to Messianic Judaism: Its Ecclesial Context and Biblical Foundations
Messianic Judaism is the most exciting movement of our time. Its rebirth in the 1900s was, in a very real sense, a restoration of something that had been lost for over a thousand years—a functional Jewish body of believers in Jesus that continues to identify with Judaism and with the Jewish people. An ever-growing body of scholarship testifies that the early Jerusalem church likewise maintained a self-identity within Judaism and...
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Wrong Ways to Read the Bible #2: The Love Letter Method
In the last article in this series, we looked at the “Ouija Board Method” of reading the Bible—opening to a random page, picking a random verse, and using it to divine God’s message to you in your particular situation. I am sure most readers understand that this method of reading the Bible is not really ideal. To many believers, even those who have tried it, it is obvious that the...
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Wrong Ways to Read the Bible #1: The Ouija Board Method
Growing up as a Christian, I encountered a lot of different approaches to the Bible. Only later, looking back, did I realize how many of these approaches were wrong. Yet I still see them used today—sometimes even by those who claim to be authorities on the Bible. I have noticed especially that teachers can get really creative when they want to make a point and they feel like they...
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Approved By Men
How important is it to be “approved by men”? I would bet that the most common answer in many sectors of the Hebrew roots movement (and Christianity as well) would be, “Not at all! I don’t need any man’s approval! I’m not a people-pleaser! I’m only interested in doing what God wants.” Many people have more or less repeated that exact same thought to me over the years. I...
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Projection
I think one of the most dangerous things we do when we read the Bible is project our own ideas onto it. Like a movie projector onto a giant screen, we splash our ideas, our values, our preconceived notions all over the Bible’s pages. Then, when we read it, it tells us exactly what we expected to hear. We shouldn’t be surprised—we planted those ideas there ourselves. Though I...
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Chick-fil-A and "Traditional" Marriage
So Chick-fil-A is in the news. The president and COO of the famous and delicious (but not kosher) chicken joint came out publicly in favor of God’s definition of marriage. Usually, in our liberal culture, “coming out” with your true and genuine beliefs on something is celebrated as being authentic and real. Not so, though, with Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy. Everyone is up in arms, including mayors of major...
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The Centrality of Yeshua
In my blogs for First Fruits of Zion, I will be addressing two different groups of people who often speak totally different languages: Messianic Gentiles and evangelical/mainstream Christians. This post is directed toward Messianic Gentiles. One of the most challenging statements I ever heard addressed to a Messianic audience was this: "Maybe we need a little less 'Torah' and a little more 'Yeshua.'" A lot of people were offended by...
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