The name of Israel
Paul Morris
Date posted: 1 Dec 2018
Dear en,
Why should a British evangelical missionary organisation to the Jewish people need
to consider dropping the word Israel from
its title? Because the wrong attitudes and
thoughts about the Jewish people, which
you rightly warned your readers against (en,
October 2018, p.5), exist among British
evangelicals.
Old Testament churches
Paul Morris
Paul Morris asks if our Christian creeds do a good job in reflecting our Jewish roots
It is an alarming but true thought that many churches have a statement of faith which ignores the Old Testament.
One to one evangelism
Paul Morris
Date posted: 1 Dec 2017
Dear en,
Welcome to our world! It is a measure of
how far the culture of the general population
of the UK has shifted that Rico Tice wisely
recommends one-to-one Bible study as a good
approach for sharing the gospel with many
of our contemporaries. Those of us who have
specialised in witness to, for example, Muslims
and Jews, have long viewed such a method as
standard because we are asking people to step
outside of their culture, one which developed
in an atmosphere of opposition to the gospel;
and people don’t usually do that in groups. In reality, that is what we are asking most of our
contemporaries to do nowadays –- to connect
with those whose views are increasingly seen as
culturally unacceptable; something not easily
done in groups. We need to adapt.