A Different Voice to My Own People
An Invitation to Help Israel Come and See the Authentic Messiah
Every year, $100m flows into Israel to bring Jewish people to Jesus.
Every year, the fundamentalist movement those dollars support grows smaller. Today, the Messianic movement numbers only around seven thousand souls, most of whom are not even Jewish.
Big dollars can’t purchase what is a free gift. Donors bring zeal, sincerity, and resources, but all of this must be channeled into a true, clear gospel Israelis can see and hear.
The largest ministries evangelizing in Israel are Reformed-Baptist (Jews for Jesus, Chosen People Ministries, One For Israel, Highway 53) and Holiness Pentecostal (Tree of Life, Maoz, etc.). Together, they proclaim that Jews will burn forever in hellfire. They offer God’s people a God who hates them, whose default posture is fury, and who cannot wait to pour out an eternity of conscious torment on his lost sheep.
The Jewish heart yearns for Jesus as Jesus’s heart does for them. My people are born to accept Their Messiah, so when we see disappointing numbers turning to him, we should look first at us rather than blaming them. When we do, we find the Roman/Greek … the PAGAN distortion of Him. This message would look foreign, and frankly repulsive, to Jesus’s first followers, every one of them a Jew.
Israelis hear this and walk away. Not by the handful, but by the millions. That’s why 99.9% of Israelis consider the Messianic movement a cult. That’s why they push for laws to restrict sharing the gospel with children. And thus, sadly, Jesus’s message is being withdrawn from Israel not on his prerogative but on our desire to lead with the vengeance we’re called to leave to God rather than love.
Please join me in bringing the Biblical Gospel to Israel.
Not a softer gospel. A truer one. The same Yeshua, spoken in Hebrew, framed NOT in MAN’s categories (whether Calvin’s or Augustine’s) but God’s. The unified Hebrew Scriptures – both testaments – presented for Jewish minds cognizant of their people’s entire history.
This is the work of my heart, and I intend to spend the rest of my life on it.
I invite you to join me in bringing the real Messiah Yeshua back to the people he came first to.
The path forward has four stages.
The Conversations: Already underway are the feet carrying the message of God’s loving hands and honest lips for his lost Israeli sheep. We know how a mustard seed can grow. How one becomes two and eventually the gospel is carried 2 x 2.
The How
The Books: I have written extensively in English on the meaning of the Gospel from a Jewish perspective and the specific obstacles obscuring it for Jews. Now I hope to translate them into Hebrew. A book travels where a preacher cannot. It can be read in private, without shame, by someone not yet ready for the face-to-face conversation their culture will shame them for.
The Website: A living website of articles, answers to the questions Israelis actually ask – all written in the language they actually use. A website that confronts them with unfiltered honesty yet embraces them with love.
The Podcast: Video is where Israel’s conversations begin. I have spent the past year discipling one of the most followed voices in the country, a believer with genuine reach among both traditional and secular Israelis. The partnering of a theologian and a trusted public voice can help the gospel penetrate Israeli life faster than the status quo of big bucks blaring a message unheard outside their own echo chamber.
Partnership
I’m searching for partners who aren’t looking to give 100m bucks but to give Israelis a chance to hear the real gospel.
I would be blessed to have partners who could free me from some of my worldly obligations so I can devote my life to this ministry. This intensive and important project cannot work with an “I’ll get to it when I have time after work” situation.
Between supporting my family modestly AND funding this work, I estimate this will run from $5-10k per month. This is lean, stripped to the bones: no campus, no staff, no admin costs. Just an Israeli theologian-evangelist – just a man whose heart burns for Yeshua –pouring everything out for his people.
I am asking for partners who believe my people deserve to hear the real thing. I welcome any donation, but I am especially grateful for regular, recurring monthly donors. Please contact me if you would like to have a conversation about planting a significant seed.
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