I’ve been looking over websites for Messianic congregations in Texas over the last few days. Many of them are affiliated with national or international Messianic organizations. Most of those are headed by people who refuse to be associated with one or more of the others. It seems to be the same story in every reformation: schism. I refuse to be a part of it. Accountability is good. Division is not. Let me repeat something I’ve said before:
If you worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and if you recognize that your only hope for salvation from the eternal consequences of your sin lies in repenting from it and placing yourself at his mercy, trusting in him to forgive you and to make a way for you to be reunited with him, then I call you a brother in Messiah. I don’t care what label you claim. I don’t care what label anyone else puts on you. I don’t care what scriptures you read or what you call your place of worship or even if you have a place of worship.
God knows you. God claims you as his own. Who are we to disagree?