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Issue 4, 2001

Volume 7, Number 4 · Two articles

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  1. New Church Development in a Pluralistic World: Messianic Jewish Congregations H. Stanley Wood
  2. Jewish Ministry Andrew Sparks

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  1. Discipleship

    New Church Development in a Pluralistic World: Messianic Jewish Congregations

    What would new church development look like if it began where the church began, in a Jewish setting? H. Stanley Wood argues that Presbyterians should recover the apostolic pattern of culturally rooted congregations and proposes the Messianic Jewish Congregation as a model.

    H. Stanley Wood11 min read

  2. Church and Culture

    Jewish Ministry

    Must a Jewish person stop being Jewish to follow Jesus? Andrew Sparks traces the question from the Jerusalem Council through the medieval disputations to the present, and argues for messianic congregations as a faithful form of Jewish ministry.

    Andrew Sparks52 min read
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