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Entries from
June 2006
June 2006 Newsletter
Thursday, June 01, 2006 :: 555 Views :: Newsletter
THE FIRST 30 YEARS
B Y S T E V E COHE N
How would you feel if you were called by God to leave your home and go
to a place He would show you? Many trials would be encountered on the
journey, and spiritual pitfalls might lurk at any turn. But perhaps the
greatest obstacle you would encounter would be the harshness of
indifference; indifference from those you are seeking to
reach, and indifference of many in the
church.
WE CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF
MISSIONARY WORK IN
MR. COHEN S LIFE!
WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US AS WE
REDEDICATE OURSELVES IN
PRAYER, PERSONAL WITNESS AND
SACRIFICIAL MISSION SUPPORT.
By God’s grace:
We have written and produced over 100
broadsides. We have written 4 books
focusing on Jewish missions, had two
series of devotions in Portals of Prayer
which goes to over a million people,
released a CD of messianic music and a
DVD on the Jewish Passover. We have
assisted in opening mission stations in
St. Louis, Houston, LA, New York City and Moscow. We have begun an
International Prayer Consortium
over the internet, now involving
over 5,000 worldwide in prayer for
the salvation of our people. We
have seen Jewish people and
gentiles confess Jesus and follow
Him in baptism. We have given
presentations and Jewish
evangelism seminars in over 1,100
churches. We helped host the first
International Lutheran Conference
on Jewish Evangelism just outside
of Jerusalem in 2001 and are
planning the second one in
Norway this summer. We gave a
seminar on Jewish missions on
the campus to the LCMS campus
workers and are planning a
major outreach in Houston
before the next LCMS Synodical
convention in 2007.
Your regular mission
support enables us to
bring the Gospel to
the Jewish people.
Please help us reach
our budget!
Something Good from
the “Da Vinci Code”?
By Alan Butterworth
What do you
think about this
book and
movie? You
must admit Dan
Brown has
succeeded in
getting a lot of
people thinking
about Jesus!
Can something good come out of negative claims
about Jesus? YES!!
Luther used his answer to explain the importance
of sharing the Gospel with Jewish people! The
following is from, “That Jesus Christ Was Born a
Jew”:
“A new lie about me is being circulated. I am
supposed to have preached... that Mary, the mother
of God, was not a virgin either before or after the
birth of Christ... [and] a new heresy, namely, that
Christ was [through Joseph] the seed of
AbrahamÖit is such a poor... lie that I... would
rather not reply to it. ...for the sake of others, however, I am compelled to
answer...
I thought I would also write something useful in addition...from Scripture
the reasons... to believe that Christ was a Jew born of a virgin, that I
might perhaps also win some Jews to the Christian faith... If I had been a
Jew and had seen such dolts and blockheads govern and teach the
Christian faith, I would sooner have become a hog than a Christian.
They have dealt with the Jews as if they were dogs rather than human
beings... When they baptize them they show them nothing of Christian
doctrine or life.... When the Jews then see that Judaism has such strong
support in Scripture, and that Christianity [is] a mere babble without
reliance on Scripture, how can they possibly... become... Christians? I
have heard from... baptized Jews... they have never heard about Christ
from those who baptized them.
...if one deals in a kindly way with the Jews and instructs them carefully
from Holy Scripture, manywill become genuine Christians and turn... to
the faith of their fathers, the prophets and patriarchs. They will only be
frightened further away from it if their Judaism is so utterly rejected that
nothing is allowed to remain, and they are treated only with arrogance
and scorn. If the apostles, who also were Jews, had dealt with us
Gentiles as we Gentiles deal with the Jews, there would never have been
a Christian among the Gentiles. Since they dealt with us Gentiles in such
brotherly fashion, weÖ ought to treat the Jews in a brotherly manner in
order that we might convert some of them.
When we are inclined to boast of our position we should remember that
we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are
aliens and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our
Lord. Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood, the Jews are actually
nearer to Christ than we are, as St. Paul says in Romans 9[:5]. God has
also demonstrated this by his acts, for to no nation among the Gentiles
has he granted so high an honor as he has to the Jews. For from among
the Gentiles there have been raised up no patriarchs, no apostles, no
prophets, indeed, very few genuine Christians either. And although the
gospel has been proclaimed to all the world, yet He committed the Holy
Scriptures, that is, the law and the prophets, to no nation except the Jews,
as Paul says in Romans 3[:2] and Psalm 147[:19–20], “He declares his
word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel. He has not dealt thus
with any other nation; nor revealed his ordinances to them.”
WH AT WO U L D Y O U D O ?
By Steve Cohen
What would you do
With 10,950 days allotted to you?
Thirty years of life to lead
Days gone by at nearly light speed
What would you do?
THE LAST HURRAH!
BY GARY TIMM
SHALOM! PERHAPS YOU HAVE NOT HEARD YET...
in April that I was accepted into the Masters of Divinity program at
Concordia Seminary, St Louis, MO.
I cannot fully express my gratitude for your support these past seven years
that I’ve been with the Apple of His Eye in New York. Truly, we could not
have proclaimed the Gospel of Messiah Jesus to the Jewish community
without your support (financially and prayerfully)! Your continuing your support of the Apple of His Eye mission work will help underwrite the second decade of
mission work and proclamation of the Gospel to the Lost Sheep of Israel!
YOUR
PRAYERS
COUNT!
For Alan Butterworth as he leads the summer outreaches in NYC, Moscow & St.
Petersburg
• For Tikveh Cohen, granddaughter of Steve & Jan as she undergoes corrective
surgeries for cleft lip and pallet
• For the Timms as they transition from missionary service to seminary life.
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