Tent of David: Healing the Vision of the Messianic Gentile

This book challenged my beliefs in a good way. It is a book I will read and re-read over and over again.

This book advises Messianic Gentiles on how they can proceed with assembling together with other believers.My favorite part was the wise advice concerning our attitudes. If we disdain others' beliefs and practices, then we are simply condemning the understanding of the Scriptures in its Hebraic roots to isolation. If we truly want to open the eyes of fellow believers to the Hebraic roots, it must be done with the fruit of the Spirit.I understood the author's other advice on not leaving our current congregation even as we begin to learn the depths of Scripture beyond the teaching of the leadership, but I contend that parents with children will have an issue with such advice. To families who are highly involved in their congregation, the influence of the congregation is greater than one hour a week. To families who build community in their congregation, they will want a community that supports their practices, such as celebrating the appointed times. While I was fine celebrating the appointed times with just my family, my wife insisted that we find a messianic congregation in order to celebrate the appointed times with other families. Now in a messianic community, the excitement of our kids for the appointed times has doubled.I would be content in following this author's advice, but some like my wife have good reasons for joining a messianic congregation. I see the author's vision, but each family will have to weight the cost of joining such a mission.

Great book. Gave me much needed guidance on how to share the Jewish roots of the Christian faith with my church family in a godly and gracious manner.

started out really good but got a little to redundant about the "mission"

well written...good insights into the view of the Christian towards the Messianic community & to their local church

I barely started reading this book but i look forward to getting more books by Boaz Michael.

Boaz Michael, President and Founder of the educational ministry First Fruits of Zion has taken twenty years of experience in delivering the message of the good news of the Jewish Messiah to the Christian world and created a grass roots movement designed to educate evangelical Christian churches in how to recognize their Jewish savior and what their role is in relation to the gospel and Israel.Michael, a Messianic Jew, has spent several years worshiping in a small Baptist church in rural Missouri and has found in that experience that developing direct relationships with non-Jewish believers based on familiarity and trust is the best way to present the actual gospel message of the Bible, that supporting and encouraging the centrality of Israel and the zealousness of Jewish believers for Torah is the actual historical and Biblical role of all Christians towards Israel."Tent of David" maps out a plan for Christians in the Church who consider themselves "Messianic" or who are "Judaically-aware," and equips them with the knowledge and the heart to reach out to their more traditionally-minded Christian brothers and sisters, helping them to re-visit the Church's attitudes toward replacement theology and the mistaken idea that grace and the Law are somehow mutually exclusive concepts. Humility and kindness are the tools Boaz says will help turn the Church toward its role in relation to Israel as assigned by God and understand that the plan of personal salvation is only the beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ for the world.The mission isn't for everyone and certainly not all churches will be receptive. Change is a very scary thing and the Church has been taught to exalt itself and to seek only the plan of personal salvation for nearly two-thousand years. Almost everything else involved in the original meaning of the gospel message has been buried under centuries of Protestant interpretative and doctrinal tradition so that Paul and the other apostles would very likely not recognize almost anything preached in a Sunday service today. Committed readers of "Tent of David" can be part of a movement to change all that, to restore the Church to its former glory, to remind the Church of its true purpose, so that the Church can come alongside Israel, support the Jewish people in Messiah, and summon the age of Messianic peace.This is a controversial book and many people, both Christians and Jews, are disturbed by its message. However, I believe "Tent of David" opens the door to a better understanding of the apostolic message to the believing Gentiles, the message originally understood during the lifetime of Paul, that Jews and non-Jews were always meant to be together within the body of Messiah, but with each element having its own glorious role in the plan of Messiah to the glory of God.

The writer is confused. He suggests going to a christian/ protestant church because the odds of finding something for Messianic Gentiles is next to zero.