A Different Voice to My Own People
An invitation to take part in bringing the authentic Messiah to Israel
Every year, more than a hundred million dollars flows into Israel to bring Jewish people to Jesus. And every year, the fundamentalist movement those dollars support grows smaller. Today the Messianic movement numbers somewhere around seven thousand souls, and most of them are not even Jewish. By any honest measure, this is not a shortage of money, zeal, or sincerity. It is a failure of presentation.
The largest ministries evangelizing in Israel come out of two theological streams. One is Reformed and Baptist in its instincts: Jews for Jesus, Chosen People Ministries, One For Israel, Highway 53. The other is Holiness Pentecostal in flavor: Tree of Life, Maoz, and others like them. Their differences are real, but on the point that matters most they speak with one voice. Their theology is that Jews will burn forever in hellfire. They offer my people a god whose default posture is fury, an eternity of conscious torment for the unconvinced, and a cross explained as divine violence, god punishing the innocent so He can bear to look at the rest of us.
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. What the Jewish heart recoils from here is not Yeshua. It is a portrait of God that our own Scriptures do not paint, a deity of rage and ledgers who bears little resemblance to the One who is rachum v’chanun, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in grace. My people are not rejecting the Messiah. They are rejecting a Greek and Roman distortion of Him, one that would have looked foreign, and frankly repulsive, to His own first followers, every one of them a Jew. The tragedy is that a hundred million dollars a year is spent shipping a Western packaging rather than the Gift.
I want to give my people something else.
Not a softer gospel. A truer one. The same Yeshua, spoken in Hebrew, framed in the categories not of Calvin and Augustine but of the Hebrew Scriptures, offered to Jewish minds in a Jewish thought-world. A Messiah they could relate to and a message they take seriously because it sounds like the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob rather than an imported foreign deity wearing His name. 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 and support my work here in Israel, bringing the real Messiah back to my Jewish people. Not a Jesus who now burns their grandparents forever in hell for dying in the Holocaust as Jews, but the Yeshua who conquered death on behalf of us all!
The path forward has four stages.
The first is books. I have written extensively in English on the meaning of the Gospel from a Jewish perspective, on God’s love, on hell, on the Oral Law, and so on. Several of these need to exist in Hebrew, written or rewritten for Israeli readers rather than merely translated for them. A book can go where a preacher cannot. It can be read in private, without shame, by someone who would never walk into a church.
The second is a Hebrew website: a growing library of articles addressing the questions Israelis actually ask, in the language they actually think in. When a curious Israeli searches for answers at two in the morning, I want something waiting there that is honest, warm, and unembarrassed.
The third is a Hebrew podcast on YouTube. Video is where Israel’s conversation now happens. 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, and there is real possibility of building this together. That combination, a theologian and a trusted public voice, could carry this message further into Israeli life than anything the movement has attempted.
The fourth, which is already happening, is meeting with people who are interested in hearing more. In the future, this might turn into a group, prayerfully even a movement.
I am not asking for a hundred million dollars. I am asking for partners who already know my message and believe my people deserve to hear the real thing.
I am not asking for a hundred million dollars. I am asking to be freed to do this properly.
Right now this work happens in the margins of other obligations. To do it seriously, I need to commit at least half my working time to it, and that requires a monthly base of five to ten thousand dollars to cover my family’s needs while I write, publish, and build. That is the entire budget. No campus, no staff, no admin. Just an Israeli theologian, writing in his own language, to his own people.
I am asking for partners who believe my people deserve to hear the real thing.
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