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Shalom In Messiah Jesus:
Tension, fear and enmity are
massing in the world, and two words laden with connotation are: Islam and Israel.
So when God brings Russian-speaking
Muslims to our ministry in the epicenter of Russian Jewish Brooklyn, what do we do? With love, we trust and teach that the
one true God is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the only way to Him is by faith in Jesus the Jewish Messiah.
We
do not erase, rather we embrace, the Jewish context of the Scriptures. God chose to reveal Himself in this way, and we want
to move in the power of His Word. In the fullness of time, God the eternal Son was born of a Jewish woman. His mission was
to achieve the most drastic reconciliation of all time – between perfectly holy God and utterly sinful mankind.
God
in this Jewish flesh entered the war zone alone, bearing all brutality for all enmity for all mankind for all ages. He suffered
all just punishment for all sin – all for love and reconciliation. All rulers in the heavenly realms must submit to His all-sufficient
triumph. As if all of this were not enough, He also enabled the greatest love and reconciliation between the worst of human
enemies. He did this for the sake of the people involved, but especially so all others might know Him.
When Jesus
breaks through all hostilities and brings Jews and Muslims together in Him – what a testimony to His grace! When He uses
the merest of instruments to craft His kingdom – what a testimony to His power! We rejoice as He leads Jews, Muslims and
other Russian-speaking people into our center, into our hearts and into His true shalom. Many have been saved, yet so many
remain in the kingdom of darkness.
Do pray that all whom the Lord touches will surrender and accept in full measure
His outpoured love and reconciliation.
For His Kingdom,
Leslie McMillan
Executive Director
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