November 1988 Newsletter (5749:1)
Last summer in New York for the Summer Witnessing Campaign I was wearing a Jews for Jesus T-shirt and distributing tracts at the public library on Fifth Avenue. A man approached me and said, Christianity is for weaklings and wimps. You go to the average church, and most of the guys there have nothing going…
I was surprised that she looked so frail. Miriam could not have been much taller than I (five feet) and could not have weighed more than 85 pounds. When she had called our New York Jews for Jesus office, she had sounded so big—so self-assured. It was July, a special time to be answering the…
The Liberated Wailing Wall mobile evangelistic team travels on a bus 11 months out of the year. Their daily ministry in churches and on college campuses is both invigorating and demanding. Your prayer support would be a tremendous encouragement to them. Here are some of their needs: Pray for a new pianist. This person must…
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed. And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14) When Mordecai admonished the young…
QUESTION: What kind of Messiah are the Jewish people looking for? Do they think he will be a boy, a young man, an adult who already has authority in the Jewish faith, or what? Will all the Jews agree that he is the right one when they find him? ANSWER: Most contemporary Jewish people are…
Along with tract distribution, another of our major sources for contacting Jewish people comes from concerned Christians who send us the names and addresses of their Jewish friends. Approximately one in every 20 Jewish persons we contact this way is open to consider the claims of Jesus. Bill” (not his real name) was one of…
I. Examine the Data (see the whole unit). A. Unit—read the entire book. (Read at one sitting or as quickly and uninterruptedly as possible.) B. Epitomize the book. (State the theme in one sentence.) C. Compartmentalize the book. (Break down into study-sized segments—See how they relate to the theme.) D. Determine the style of the…
Our Jews for Jesus staff and volunteers hand out millions of broadsides each year. We stop and talk with thousands of strangers. Some become our friends, and a few even become our brothers and sisters in Christ. In tangential ways we also touch literally thousands of others who usually remain unknown to us. I suspect…
