Post by Sanil on Mar 23, 2008 18:10:33 GMT -8
I hate intros, but I'll do my best.
I've been going to church pretty much my entire life. My mom is a Baptist, and raised me and my sister in the Baptist church. She's not crazy about other denominations, so I never really knew anything else until I got to college. But I have disagreed with a lot of what I was taught in the Baptist church for years, and so while I believed in God and definitely considered myself a Christian, I didn't really have any loyalty or interest in church. (I was told not to think too much about the Bible, because it didn't make sense and I would stop believing. I was also told that I shouldn't read the Old Testament, and that works don't matter at all, and you can keep living in sin as long as you believe. None of this seemed right to me.) So when I went to college, and had other influences in my life, I stopped going. I'm also very liberal politically, and I had a lot of arguments with conservative Christians who thought I was foolish, so I had even less interest, and actually made efforts to avoid Christians.
Then in my senior year, I was invited to a meeting of one of the Christian fellowship groups on campus. So I went, and started getting more involved in church. I signed up for two Bible studies. One of them was led by the guy who invited me to the meeting, and was on Jewish roots of Christianity. We read and talked about "King of the Jews", by D. Thomas Lancaster. Actually, he talked, and the rest of us stared and took notes and occasionally asked questions. I was fascinated by everything I was learning there, and I kept wanting to know more. At the end of the year, a friend and I were talking about that study, and she told me he was a Messianic Jew. I had never heard of that, but I looked into it. The more I learned, the more I was convinced that it was true, and I've been dedicated to learning ALL of God's Word, and living the way He told us to.
I joined this forum because I don't know many other Messianic Jews, and I would like to learn more and hear from other people. I'm going to grad school in August/September, and their is a Messianic synagogue there. I'm looking forward to that a lot, but for now, I don't really have anyone around who believes the
still applies, and it's very frustrating at times. I'm trying to grow and learn more about how to follow it, and everyone in my life is telling me that I should stop trying. I'm hoping to find more support and instruction here.
I've been going to church pretty much my entire life. My mom is a Baptist, and raised me and my sister in the Baptist church. She's not crazy about other denominations, so I never really knew anything else until I got to college. But I have disagreed with a lot of what I was taught in the Baptist church for years, and so while I believed in God and definitely considered myself a Christian, I didn't really have any loyalty or interest in church. (I was told not to think too much about the Bible, because it didn't make sense and I would stop believing. I was also told that I shouldn't read the Old Testament, and that works don't matter at all, and you can keep living in sin as long as you believe. None of this seemed right to me.) So when I went to college, and had other influences in my life, I stopped going. I'm also very liberal politically, and I had a lot of arguments with conservative Christians who thought I was foolish, so I had even less interest, and actually made efforts to avoid Christians.
Then in my senior year, I was invited to a meeting of one of the Christian fellowship groups on campus. So I went, and started getting more involved in church. I signed up for two Bible studies. One of them was led by the guy who invited me to the meeting, and was on Jewish roots of Christianity. We read and talked about "King of the Jews", by D. Thomas Lancaster. Actually, he talked, and the rest of us stared and took notes and occasionally asked questions. I was fascinated by everything I was learning there, and I kept wanting to know more. At the end of the year, a friend and I were talking about that study, and she told me he was a Messianic Jew. I had never heard of that, but I looked into it. The more I learned, the more I was convinced that it was true, and I've been dedicated to learning ALL of God's Word, and living the way He told us to.
I joined this forum because I don't know many other Messianic Jews, and I would like to learn more and hear from other people. I'm going to grad school in August/September, and their is a Messianic synagogue there. I'm looking forward to that a lot, but for now, I don't really have anyone around who believes the
still applies, and it's very frustrating at times. I'm trying to grow and learn more about how to follow it, and everyone in my life is telling me that I should stop trying. I'm hoping to find more support and instruction here.
I hope you enjoy your time here.
