Word: yeshua
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...quoted in the article "Yeshua Is the Messiah" [July 4] as having said that young Jews who become Christians "are not looking for Jewish rap groups. They are looking...
Much of the tumult in the movement is now swirling around a Pentecostal group in Stony Brook. Long Island, called B'nai Yeshua (Sons of Jesus), which draws up to 200 people for Friday-night services and claims to run the world's first major "messianic training center." It has 30 students at present and 31 full-time evangelists who are waging a summer campaign...
This month B'nai Yeshua dedicated its twelve-acre, $1,105,000 estate during a conference attended by 700 believers, about two-thirds of them Jewish. Leader Mike Evans, 29, presided like an auctioneer over fund-raising appeals ("Tell every single person what you want them to do. Lord") and faith-healing marathons ("There's a man with a gall bladder problem sitting over there. Well, you're God's beloved"). At one point Evans appealed for commitments to Jesus, blending Jewish terminology with tent revivalism: "Great God of Israel, I need forgiveness for my sins...
Professing amazement at the opposition B'nai Yeshua has aroused from Long Island Jews and Establishment Protestants, Evans says: "We are just a bunch of young Jewish kids." Evans, who was given a weak religious upbringing by his Jewish mother, ran a Texas Bible camp until he felt God tell him that a great revival was coming in the New York City area. Despite his Jewish emphasis, he gets backing from such Gentile Pentecostal stalwarts as Christian Broadcaster Pat Robertson and Evangelist David Wilkerson...
Other new groups that play up their Jewishness play down or avoid altogether the heavy Pentecostalism of Evans' B'nai Yeshua. Among them: Philadelphia's Beth Yeshua, which has grown from 30 members to 150 in two years, and Beth Messiah in the Washington. D.C., area, begun with six members in 1973 and now boasting 500. A pioneer in the new style was charming, talkative Moishe Rosen, who founded "Jews for Jesus" in 1973 and now presides over 80 staffers and a $2 million annual budget from his unmarked headquarters in San Rafael. Calif...