A GRAZING MACE is the lead article by Steve Cohen. Any army general knows that his troops must be properly trained, battle ready and equipped with the right tools to win a war. We Christians are no different… we need to be trained in the spiritual disciplines of prayer, fasting and dependence on the Holy Spirit in the battle to reach Jewish people with the Gospel.

Is Time on Your Side?

By Alan Butterworth

Have you ever heard the song, “Time is On My Side”? If you are from my generation, you know the melody. We remember songs a long time! Like many songs, it has to do with love. The writer longs to see the one who has left and come back so many times before, the one who has been running around, doing “everything your heart desires”. The chorus predicts “you’ll come running back to me…. cause I got the real love. The kind that you need.”

Shalom from Moscow! By Alexey Shepelev

Well, this Christmas was truly a blessing for us. My congregation St. Cyril and Methodius held the evening service at December 24 ( December 25 in Russia is working day). This service was full; usually we have 20-30 worshipers, but at this service the number of people was tripled.

On December 26 we organized the AOHE Russia seminar “ Jewish Roots of Christian faith.” After two years of leading seminars I can tell that this one was most interesting from my point of view.

First of all, what was truly interesting is the number of denominations from where the seminar participants come from. Lutherans from Church of Ingrea ( partner of LCMS in Russia) and ELKROS ( in fellowship with ELCA), Russian Orthodox, Baptist, Roman Catholic (not just lay people but Jesuit monks) and the reporter of main religious web portal in Russia credo.ru. This guy’s name is Moshe and he is a member of reform synagogue in Moscow.

During our seminar we had following speakers: A brief testimony was given by Ilya a Jews for Jesus missionary, then our worker and a good friend of mine Vadim Kusnezoff gave a lecture “ why Jews don’t go to church” and “Athens or Jerusalem.” After lunch was the lecture by Sergey Hudiev (Jewish believer) Russian Orthodox apologist. Then was my small lecture “to be a Jew or become Christian.” The last speech was from Paul Froloff (a member of my congregation and AOHE Moscow volunteer). This day was finished by open discussion and fellowship. We end up with small speech given by Moshe Litvak, the reporter of Credo.ru. Moshe was so surprised that our ministry is ready for serious dialog with Synagogue and our desire to return the Jewish Roots of Christian faith.

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