We’re often asked if we are a Messianic congregation. What we are is better described than labeled. Take a look.

Background:

Restoration Fellowship began with three young couples in the mid 1970’s. Each had at least one Jewish partner. Amongst their other priorities, they believed that the Bible instructed Jewish believers to maintain their identities as Jewish believers. At the same time they embraced the call to reach out to people from every ethnic background. In the Spring of 1977 the Jewish believers began to keep the feasts and invited the non-Jewish members of Restoration Fellowship to come if they’d like.

Depending upon our resources, natural inclination, and what we discerned as the Spirit’s emphases there have been times when the “Jewish expression” at Restoration Fellowship has been stronger than others. Yet, throughout our life together we have encouraged Jewish believers to maintain their identities, and the non-Jewish believers to maintain theirs.

We have maintained close relationships with various streams of the Messianic movement and other Jewish believers and friends of the Jewish people in the USA and Israel.

Our stance in these matters can be seen in the Paul’s letter to the Romans. 

We understand the Scriptures from what has been called a “Jewish roots” perspective. We know that Jesus and the apostles saw themselves as Jewish men who were bringing the Kingdom of God to Israel and the nations. We believe the entire Bible is best understood from within a Jewish historical cultural viewpoint. (Romans 3:1,2)

We mourn, abhor, renounce and denounce “Christian anti-Semitism” as expressed in replacement theology and in the practice of many churches. Today, it is most common to find the practice of this arrogant theological anti-Semitism in the expression of an arrogant anti-Zionism. (Romans 9:1-3)

We pray and co-labor for the Jewish people’s reconciliation to the God of Israel through Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel and the deliverer of the nations. (Romans 9:1-5; 10:1; 11:13,14) We instruct others in the Christian churches about the Jewish priority of the Gospel (Romans 1:16), the end-time reconciliation of Israel (Romans 11) and the cross cultural unity of the community of believers (Romans 15:7-13).

We are advocates for the Jewish people in the court of public opinion which has been slanted against them due to unrelenting slander from the media. (Romans 9:1-5)

We encourage the Church to repent of hubris and hatred towards the Jewish people so the church may come into all that God has for them, for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. (Romans 11:11-29)

We see the Jewish believers as being the Biblically defined godly prophetic remnant of Israel. (Romans 2:28-3:3 ; 9:6) We view non-Jewish believers as the remnant of the nations, members of the same Body, valuable partners and, together with the Jewish remnant, co-heirs with Jesus. (Romans 8; 15:6 ; 14:7-9)

Here’s a song which contains our theology, expectation and intercession: