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LCJE Bulletin LCJE Issue 96, May 2009 Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism Networking Jewish Evangelism LCJE Bulletin LCJE Issue 96, May 2009 Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism President Tuvya Zaretsky [email protected] International Coordinator Kai Kjær-Hansen [email protected] International Committee Members Ann Hilsden [email protected] Mitch Glaser [email protected] Area Coordinators AustralAsia Bob Mendelsohn [email protected] Europe Jean-Paul Rempp [email protected] Israel David Zadok [email protected] Japan Teiichiro Kuroda [email protected] North America Jim Sibley [email protected] Latin America David Sedaca [email protected] South Africa Cecilia Burger [email protected] International Coordinator & International Mailing Address Kai Kjær-Hansen, Box 11, DK 8520 Lystrup, Denmark Networking Jewish Evangelism [email protected] Website www.LCJE.net LCJE Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism ISSN 1016-2089 From the Coordinator Countdown to Cape Town 2010 LCJE is part of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization (LCWE). The countdown has begun to the next major international LCWE congress, which will LCJE Bulletin be held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 16-25, Issue no. 96 2010. May 2009 When the year 2010 was chosen, the reason of course was that it is the centenary of the famous © Lausanne Consultation on Edinburgh conference in 1910. Jewish evangelism was Jewish Evangelism indeed on the program then, but not quite as much as those who were then involved in Jewish evangelism had Editor: Kai Kjær-Hansen hoped. Editorial assistant and design: About 4,000 participants are expected at the meeting Cindy Osborne in Cape Town in 2010. It is only possible to participate by invitation. Naturally we hope that among those Printed by Sir Speedy people nominated through the national and regional Carol Stream, IL 60188 LCWE committees there will be people with a heart for Jewish evangelism. Published February, May, From the extensive material published from the August, and November. Edinburgh meeting in1910, I note, among other things, Individual membership US $25 the following: annually; subscription US $15; “Followers of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself after the payable to LCJE. flesh a Jew should give to the presentation of Christ to the Jew its rightful place in the Great Commission. It is Our bankers are: not a task to be left to a few enthusiastic believers, but Den Danske Bank the obligation and responsibility of the whole Christian SWIFT-address:DABADKKK Church. The Gospel must be preached to the Jew Reg.no. 3652 wherever he may be found. Account no. 4803086338 IBAN: DK6430004803086338 For centuries the Church has paid little heed to the Or cheque drawn on a Danish missionary message of the Apostle to the Gentiles, bank and sent to LCJE/Kai 'There is no difference between the Jew and the Greek.' Kjær-Hansen (address on back Both are sinners, for both have come short of the glory cover). [of] God, and both need a Saviour, even the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet the Church has acted as though it believes CONTENTS otherwise. The attitude of the Christian to the Jew has not been merely one of neglect but of bitter hostility. From the Coordinator 2 Reparation is due for the contempt and injustice meted To the Ends of the Earth 3 LCJE Resolution 4 out buy the Christian Church and its members to the Finding Kinship at LCJE 5 race into which its Founder was born and out of which A Street Encounter 7 He drew His first disciples. Christianity was born in Against All Odds 8 Judaism and owes a debt to bring the Jew home at last Post Holocaust Ministry 14 to the fold of Christ.” Chicago Outreach 17 May it be heard in Cape Town 2010: Jewish Annual Media Report 20 evangelism “is not a task to be left to a few enthusiastic Internet Pre-Evangelism 23 believers”! Book Review: Fire in the Rock 24 LCMS Jewish Evangelism 25 Kai Kjær-Hansen Flemming Markussen 26 2 To the Ends of the Earth By Charles Klingensmith, Chapter President LCJE Japan This coming summer the rabbis, physicians, and Japanese church later, Zionist leaders.) In commemorates 150 years 1843 he married Rose of Protestant mission in this Barwick (an English country. In July 1859 three Gentile?), yet seems to treaty ports were opened to have hungered for a missionaries, and the greater usefulness to the American Protestant Lord in mission. churches seized the These were times of far- opportunity to work in two reaching change in East of them; in Nagasaki, Asia. For 250 years Japan Channing Moore Williams had remained closed to of the American Episcopal foreign contact, especially Church; in Yokohama, the contact with Christianity (at Presbyterian Dr. James penalty of death for Hepburn, M.D., and the violators of this policy). Yet the University of Padua, American Dutch Reformed this was year by year less taking an M.D. degree in G.H.F. Verbeck. These sustainable; Americans 1836 at age 25. That was Americans will be honored wanted harbors for their an era of cholera, and this summer as the first whalers, and the British young Dr. Bettelheim Protestant missionaries to wanted trade. An open practiced as a cholera work here, yet in actual fact Japan might allow foreign specialist in the north in they were not the first. That mission (at the very least Trieste, and in the south in honor goes to Bernard limited to resident Naples, and then somehow Jean Bettelheim, a foreigners), and prayers found employment in the Hungarian Jewish believer and expectations were Egyptian and later the in Jesus. Bettelheim unlimited. Subscribers to a Ottoman navies. It was worked in Okinawa from mission society formed while serving in the 1846 to 1854, but remains among members of the Ottoman navy in Smyrna largely unknown. British navy, and merchant that he met a British naval Bettelheim was born in fleets began canvassing for chaplain who led him to 1811 in Pressburg in the someone able to go to Messiah. Bettelheim was Habsburg-ruled Kingdom of Japan. Knowing the baptized there in 1840. Hungary, now Bratislava in dangers, the Loochoo His baptism led him to Slovakia. In 1824 he left Naval Mission planned to break with everything he home to go to Budapest, enter through a hole in the had known thus far; he from which after a few wall: Okinawa, an island to went to Britain and worked years he moved to Vienna. the south of the Japanese as a freelance missionary He had a talent for mainland. Bettelheim to both London's Jews and languages, and supported answered the call, and on Gentiles. (As far as I know, himself as a private tutor. September 9, 1845, sailed no record remains of how Yet he remained restless; with his wife and daughter his Jewish family reacted to was it a desire to see the for China. In Hong Kong, his confession of Messiah world, or was it before sailing again, and baptism; the New restlessness for Something Bettelheim worked on Standard Jewish More? Bettelheim made his necessary languages, and Encyclopedia, however, way south to the famous arrived April 30, 1846, in lists many prominent Italian medical school at Naha in Okinawa. members of this family of 3 Mission remained passed by in 1854. see a growth in both the punishable by death, and Bettelheim thus sailed to number of churches and though his public work was the United States and the number of Christians. medicine, Bettelheim and settled there, even serving Most sadly, perhaps, is that his family spent 7 years as a physician with an Bettelheim to this day spied upon and not trusted. Illinois (northern) regiment remains unknown here as Bettelheim remained in America's civil war. He a Jewish believer in Jesus. faithful to his call to work died February 9, 1870, in Surely a task this year for for the gospel, and Missouri, where he is LCJE Japan is to recall to together with his wife buried. the Japanese church this translated portions of the The Loochoo Naval man, not simply as pioneer Gospels and Acts. He was Mission disbanded in 1855; missionary and physician, able to secretly baptize a Bettelheim's translations but as an Israelite indeed, few Japanese. were soon superseded. who served the Messiah Feverish tropical heat, There are no records as to and God of Israel to the tireless harassment by what happened to the few ends of the earth. local officials, and failing he baptized. He left no health caused Bettelheim lasting impact. Only after CharlesKlingensmith and his family to leave 1945, during the long years [email protected] Okinawa when of American military Commodore Perry's fleet occupation, would Okinawa Resolution on Christian Zionism and Jewish Evangelism David Brickner's paper on “How Christian is Christian Zionism?” gave rise to the resolution on Christian Zionism and Jewish evangelism. The following resolution was passed at the 26th annual meeting of the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism – North America, held in Phoenix, Arizona, March 2-4, 2009. It reads as follows: The Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism – North America affirms those Christians who have a love for the Jewish people and wish to bless Israel. We affirm those Christians who stand as friends of Israel and recognize her rightful place in the Land. We also affirm the many Christian ministries that bless Israel without compromising a clear proclamation of the gospel. We believe that calling the Jewish people to accept Jesus (Y'shua) as the Messiah both of Israel and all nations is the biblical mandate and natural loving response to the belief that there is salvation only through personal faith in Jesus Christ.
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