Well this is taking the journal in a new direction.
The speaker in tonight's service was from Jews for Jesus, an organisation that seeks to introduce Jewish people to Jesus. (What a coincidence. I was just reading this book which deals with similar subject matter.) The speaker gave his testimony about growing up in a Jewish household, and of his being instilled with a general distrust of Christians. Christians were seen as the enemy, and, considering all the persecutions levied by Christians against Jewish people over the years, who can blame them. He told how he was introduced to Jesus by a friend, and how he started reading the New Testament
The speaker was an exceptionally enthusiastic evangelical preacher, and he is certainly hands on, introducing people to Jesus. And there's a lot of family pressure to overcome when a jew converts to Christianity. It's not just a faith you are changing, but a perception that you have to disown your family. What Jews for Jesus teaches is that the New Testament was written by a bunch of Jews, and is written for Jews, and for everyone else.
So it was a small service in terms of numbers in the pews, but one that was big on ideas to consider..
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