Notification
I recently received an e-mail that gave me a chuckle. Here is the e-mail:
"Thank you for listing B'nai Avraham Messianic Fellowship of Hampton, VA on your website.
Note that we have become an independent congregation, with website of www.BnaiAvrahamVA.org
We also no longer worship at Liberty Baptist church.
If you have questions about this change, please ask!
Mike Mitchell
member, BAMF ministry team"
Independent....not so much. First of all, it does not change the fact that B'nai Avraham was a church plant by the Liberty Baptist church. I am sure that I am not surprising anyone when I say that Baptist churches do not plant real synagogues. Second, their congregation is part of the Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship. So, officially they are Southern Baptists. Again, not so independent. Just now grown-up enough to worship elsewhere, as practicing Southern Baptists, with no real connection to true Judaism.
"Thank you for listing B'nai Avraham Messianic Fellowship of Hampton, VA on your website.
Note that we have become an independent congregation, with website of www.BnaiAvrahamVA.org
We also no longer worship at Liberty Baptist church.
If you have questions about this change, please ask!
Mike Mitchell
member, BAMF ministry team"
Independent....not so much. First of all, it does not change the fact that B'nai Avraham was a church plant by the Liberty Baptist church. I am sure that I am not surprising anyone when I say that Baptist churches do not plant real synagogues. Second, their congregation is part of the Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship. So, officially they are Southern Baptists. Again, not so independent. Just now grown-up enough to worship elsewhere, as practicing Southern Baptists, with no real connection to true Judaism.
posted by Jason Levinson | 2:59 PM
2 Comments:
Yes, B'nai Avraham is still affiliated with the SBMF, but also Association of Messianic Congregations, and the rabbi is on staff with Chosen People Ministries. Not everyone in the congregation is Baptist, and about a quarter are Jewish; included son of Holocaust survivor for a time.
Mike
Which still does not change the fact that B'nai Avraham is a Southern Baptist church plant and by definition, not a Jewish congregation.
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