Comments on: Removal of prayer for conversion of the Jews to be revisited at General Synod 2019

By: Evelyn Tan

Evelyn Tan — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:15:16 +0000

Some Jews are working hard to bring their fellow Jews to Catholicism while we are having second thoughts about it. It’s not being self righteous. It’s not telling other religion that we Catholics are better than them. It’s just giving them what is due to them.

Website below isn’t mine, but you should look into it.

http://www.salvationisfromthejews.com

By: Tony Houghton

Tony Houghton — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:17:06 +0000

In reply to dale sparkes. All you say is true but that should not deter us from doing our calling in spreading the gospel to the lost and that includes Jews, Muslims and nonbelievers alike. (that's what it should have said)

By: Tony Houghton

Tony Houghton — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:51:19 +0000

In reply to dale sparkes. All you say is true bur that should not do our calling in spreading the gospel to the lost and that includes Jews, Muslims and nonbelievers alike.

By: dale sparkes

dale sparkes — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:15:26 +0000

a simple fact is that no one fully embodies Christ, including Christians. The BCP prayers (pgs. 41 and 174) that refer to specific groups for conversion are out of place when in fact everyone is in need of either conversion or further conversions to fulfill the potentiality of their God given life. Christians best look in the mirror to see if their lives are in fact a light to the world (bright or dim) and work at being exemplar.

By: Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 20:37:05 +0000

I think it would be worthwhile for the Anglican Church (and the Journal) to revisit the content of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Did he not come to seek and to save the lost? Did he not offer eternal life to whoever believes? Is his sacrificial death upon the cross for some people but not for others? Are Jews sinners like everyone else, or are they in some special category? What is universalism and why is it false? What is an unreached people group? What is a Messianic Jew, and how might he be different from a ‘regular’ Jew? Are there churches that host conferences on the unadulterated gospel? What is it that we are supposed to believe? Jews (and all peoples) are lost in their sin unless they trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour – what’s the problem with that?