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Article: Promise Keepers courting Jews? Christian group revive efforts.
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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A Drew University professor who has spent years studying evangelical Christianity says a once mighty men's revival group is back and is intensifying its outreach to the Jewish community.
And while some of this outreach is in the name of interfaith amity, the group is also firming up its ties to messianic Jews--Jews by birth who profess a belief in both Judaism and Jesus as their messiah.
Messianic Judaism is considered anathema to almost all mainstream Jewish organizations.
J. Terry Todd, director of Drew's Center on Religion, Culture & Conflict, recently watched a webcast of a two-day conference and prayer rally sponsored by Promise Keepers.
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