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Does your church talk about and teach what Yeshua taught?


From Our Learning About Your Biblical Heritages Series

When preachers of my childhood church read the account from Acts 2:14-39, it sounded like Peter was holding an old fashion tent revival like our church held every summer:

Then Peter said: “Repent and be baptized in the name of Yeshua the Anointed One for the remission of sins. You will then receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Peter’s altar call was a huge success – 3,000 people believed and were baptized. We understood that to mean that 3,000 people became Christians -- and most of them were Jewish. Now they would go to Heaven instead of burn in Hell for eternity!

For some reason our preachers usually stopped reading the biblical text at that verse. But if you have been studying with us for a while you know what we always say -- keep on reading and keep things in context. Pay close attention to what those 3,000 new converts did after they were baptized (Acts 2:41-45):

1. They ate together daily with the apostles and other believers.

2. They were taught daily by the apostles.

3. They prayed together daily.

4. They gathered in the Temple daily.

5. They sold their possessions, goods, and land.

6. They brought the money they received from selling those things and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Is that what you did after you were saved and baptized? If your church had told you the above things were requirements “for being saved,” would you have become a Christian? I think requirements #5 and #6 would lower the conversion statistics in all churches dramatically.

This raises a lot of important questions for people who identify themselves as “Christian” today – and they are very important questions. Today, the word “Christian” is an “umbrella identity” that can mean many different things to believers and non-believers. The requirement for membership in Yeshua’s movement was very specific – one must do actions of righteousness in order to enter eternal life. It had nothing to do with believing anything about Yeshua.

One thing we need to clearly understand is that the account from Acts is an important part of our Christian heritage and history. Yeshua’s teachings have been replaced by “institutional truths” created by church leaders and others over the past 1,800 years. Today, Christian membership and salvation messages rest on one thing -- “believing in Jesus.” What they mean by that is “believing what they say about him.”

As we have said many times, one fact is very clear – his name wasn’t Jesus, it was Yeshua. If a church doesn’t call him by the right name, you may be sure that the rest of what they say about him should be double-checked before you believe it! We recommend comparing what anyone says about Jesus and being a Christian to what Yeshua said about himself and belonging to his movement.

We created the Biblical Heritage Center and the Real Yeshua Project to help anyone that’s interested learn about the real Yeshua and his teachings, plus discover how Christian belief systems and institutions have evolved and changed since Yeshua lived and taught in the first century.
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