LCJE Bulletin Issue 109, August 2012
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LCJE Bulletin Issue 109, August 2012 Networking Jewish Evangelism LCJELausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism Networking Jewish Evangelism From the Coordinator As this issue goes to press, the Third LCJE AustralAsia Confer- ence and the South Africa Regional Conference have recently LCJELausanne Consultation completed their meetings. We include excerpts of reports from on Jewish Evangelism the AustraAsian conference as well as the conference program LCJE Bulletin in this issue. One of them is Scott Brown’s presentation on “Jew- Issue No. 109 ish Evangelism in the New Age: Perspectives and Response.” August 2012 Scott’s article is a good counterpart to my report in this issue on the kabbalistic town of Safed in the Galilee region. These © Lausanne Consultation on articles, taken together, show that various aspects of Jewish Jewish Evangelism mysticism, the Kabbalah and the New Age movement are closely intertwined. These have ensnared many Jewish seekers in our Editor : Jim Melnick day. Grasping these connections is important for understanding Design : Chris Skjøtt many of the streams of modern Judaism. They provide insights into how Jewish evangelism might better reach the hearts and Printed by: Yorke Printe Shoppe souls of those who are trapped in these false views. Lombard, IL 60148 Also in this issue, LCJE President Tuvya Zaretsky shares two Published February, May, articles - the first about recent developments in the global Laus- August, and November anne Movement itself and the second about the Global Diaspora Movement and its potential impact on Jewish missions. Since so Address: P.O. Box 5501 much of our outreach takes place outside of Eretz Yisrael in the Falmouth, VA 22403 USA Jewish Diaspora, understanding more about diaspora missiology in general can only be helpful to our ministries. Individual membership US $25 annually; subscription US $15 Speaking of Eretz Yisrael and Zion, Iranian President Mahmoud payable to LCJE Ahmadinejad told supporters in Tehran on August 17, 2012 Payment: By check or bank (Jerusalem Day address) that “the Zionist regime and the Zion- transfer; see www.LCJE.net ists are a cancerous tumor,” an “insult to all humanity,” and that (under “Contact”) “the nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists in the Palestinian land.” He added that “a new Middle East will definitely be formed,” a “new Middle East [where] there will be CONTENTS no trace of the Americans and Zionists.” 2 From the Coordinator What shall we say in response?: “He Who watches over Israel 3 David and me (and you) slumbers not, nor sleeps.” (Psalm 121:4) Regardless of one’s 4 A Tribute to Stan Telchin eschatology, war eventually seems inevitable. We should not be 7 The Fourth CEO Conference caught unawares but should prepare for the challenges and op- 8 Handling Jewish Objections portunities that are coming. 10 Lausanne Movement Report 12 Global Diaspora Network 14 When Dreams Go Thud - As Charles Klingensmith’s insightful devotion reminds us, we Handling Failure in Ministry want to serve the purposes of God in our generation. That was 16 Jewish Evangelism in the the heart’s desire of our brother Stan Telchin, and we remember New Age Stan’s life and ministry in this issue. Jewish evangelism remains 20 My Visit to Safed (Tsfat) at the very core of the purposes of God (Romans 11). May we 22 AustraliAsia Conference all rise to serve those purposes in our own generation by being Program faithful to the calling that He has placed in our hearts! 23 LCJE Meetings Yours for the salvation of Israel. Jim Melnick [email protected] Visit the website www.lcje.net 2 David and me (and you) By Charles Klingensmith, LCJE Japan Paul is in the synagogue in you look behind you and Pisdian Antioch. He’s proving see what happens when life that Jesus is the promised is suddenly cut down. We Messiah, and the proof is that found a hospital patient’s “God raised Jesus from the plastic ID card on the beach. dead.” (Acts 13:30). And to A woman’s ID, born in 1970. highlight the importance of Was she a housewife? You this, he’s talking about the can imagine that the ID had history of Israel, and he men- perhaps been in her wallet, tions David: he’s contrasting the wallet probably in her David and Jesus - David died, purse, the purse, maybe in a but Messiah rose from the drawer, the drawer in a cabi- dead. This is what he says: net, the cabinet perhaps in “David, after he had served her bedroom. And in March the purpose of God in his Charles Klingensmith the windows were closed, and own generation, fell asleep...” the house was quiet on an or- let go both of his work and (verse 36). dinary Friday. And you think his generation. David’s time of the route that that ID card was not unlimited. But he David’s Work Answered took from inside that wallet to was on time, for it was after God’s Plan and His Era’s that beach, and it takes your he served God that he was Need breath away. People need to called home. He was allowed Paul gives high praise to Da- hear the gospel now, because to complete his work. That, vid: “In his own generation,” there is no promise of tomor- by the way, I think, is the he served the purpose of row. highest grace a worker can God. David’s work answered be given, namely, completion. both God’s plan, and his own The Challenge for Us Serving his era, desire, work, era’s need. “Your steadfast So David got it right - he was completion - all in a blessed love O Lord extends to the on time, but he didn’t miss straight line. heavens, your faithfulness to the purpose of his own birth the clouds.” (Ps 36:5). David or his own generation, and Our Own Era himself sang that beautifully, he worked hard to serve God. I think about our own era and but his accomplishment was And God didn’t let David’s our own work. Will I, too, to pull down from on High weaknesses as a person de- be allowed to complete my that love and that faithful- stroy his work. work? And in a way that I ness and apply it to ground This is a challenge for us can accept? How should we level times, to people where all: to read the Bible sim- understand this era? Several they actually were. David ply, to believe it simply, to months ago a Japanese co- knew God’s will, but he also understand these compli- worker and I went up north understood his era, and he cated times, and to serve the to the Nobiru Coast in Miyagi assuredly felt God’s will was purposes of God in our own Prefecture, part of the long the answer to his era’s confu- generation, all on time. You line of coast that was hit by sion. David the believer tied yourself are Messiah’s person the 2011 tsunami. Looking God’s plan and his own era’s for these times. God bless at the sea there, how pristine need together while he could. you as you serve Him! it is - blue sea and sky, rock, But at last an end came, for pine, everywhere. And then David died, and he had to Charles Klingensmith [email protected] 3 A Tribute to Stan Telchin By David Brickner, Executive Director, Jews for Jesus Stan and Elaine Telchin My Call to Stan daughter. The book, which sold Robyn Wilk, who leads our ful cry of genuine regret. It over a million copies and was work in Florida, called me on stunned me. translated into 30 languages, my cell phone. “You need to Here was a man whom the opened many opportunities call Stan Telchin as soon as Lord had used to lead thou- for ministry for Stan, including possible,” she urged. “The sands to faith in Jesus. He had hosting a daily radio program doctors are saying he may traveled and shared the gospel on WCTN in Potomac, Mary- not have more than a week with millions in ten different land, for eight years and ap- to live.” countries around the world pearing on national television Stan and I had been during more than 30 years of in the United States, Canada scheduled to talk the previ- ministry. Yet as he lay dying in and the Ukraine. ous week, but he’d not been a hospital bed, his only regret Dan Coggins recalls, “A few well enough to take the call. was that he couldn’t have years ago my wife (who is I wondered if I would fare done more for Christ. Jewish) and I gave Betrayed to any better, knowing that his her father after years of wit- health had taken another Coming to Faith nessing to him about Yeshua. turn. But I made the call, and It’s truly been my privilege to It was instrumental in moving Stan’s wife, Elaine, assured know Stan as a friend, and him closer to faith. About two me that he was able to talk. also as a colleague since he years ago we received confir- “How are you doing Stan?” joined the staff of Jews for mation of his faith when he I asked. Jesus in 2003. commented regarding Messiah, “You want the truth?” he Stan’s book Betrayed, ‘He died for us.’ My wife was responded. “I’m doing lousy. which is so well known in our delighted and we’ve since en- I have congestive heart fail- movement, tells the story of couraged his ‘newborn’ faith.” ure.