{"id":4641,"date":"2014-02-18T23:35:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2014-02-18T23:35:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:35:59","slug":"the-chief-problem-of-the-chosen-people-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4641","title":{"rendered":"The Chief Problem of The Chosen People Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/drmitchglaser.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/17\/a-response-to-pastor-dan-delzells-article-in-the-christian-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">reading Dr. Mitch Glaser<\/a>, some of the issues I have been wondering about this Jews for Jesus movement has become more transparent.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that I am against this ministry under Christ. Their commitment to evangelism is still quite remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>However, their push for identifying Jews as a superior key in God's kingdom is disturbing. They do not have \"church\" service, they have gatherings. It also appears to me from the article that they do not like the verse \"not all Israel are Israel\".<\/p>\n<p>Is Glaser saying that all Israel are Israel? Some of us even got confused as to what exactly is a Jew these days. I've seen Chinese wearing Yarmulke and considering himself Jewish. I've also heard that Jews are those who could trace their bloodline to Abraham. So is it about ethnicity? choice? or something else?!<\/p>\n<p>It is more of a national (Israel) pride for Glaser to stand on his view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Dr. Mitch Glaser, some of the issues I have been wondering about this Jews for Jesus movement has become more transparent. That is not to say that I am against this ministry under Christ. Their commitment to evangelism &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=4641\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}