Truth, Tears, Turning, and Trusting
A Pastor’s Plea to End Our Ongoing Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
To a startling extent, we Christians have related, and still relate, to Jewish people in ways that encourage anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism. We often do this as we exegete the Bible in our sermons, classrooms, and books. Our sins against Jews can be just as horrendous when they flow from our ignorance, arrogance, and privilege as when they are the expression of outright prejudices. This book is a plea for Christians to live up to the challenge Jesus, as well as the great writing prophets of the Old Testament, set for us. We must learn to tell the truth rather than hiding from it, to shed the tears of broken hearts, choose turning from our old ways to new paths, and practice trusting that God will bless the efforts. Although the author believes it is important to know that the mostly Jewish writers of the New Testament were not rejecting their Jewish roots, and certainly were not anti-Semitic, he acknowledges that church history ensures that there is almost no other way to hear some passages today. We can choose a new path that honors Jesus and honors all we owe the Jewish people past and present.
Endorsements (3)
“In a brief readable book, Ron Simkins has put his finger upon an unspoken and unacknowledged sin of the church-at-large: anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism. Lest the potential reader think this is not ‘my’ sin, think again. Simkins reveals how we all are culpable to some degree and need this truth imposed upon our hearts and minds. This book will convict one of its truth, should move one to tears, hopefully cause one to truly repent, and trust that the One God of the universe, of Jews and Christians, will restore one to love the neighbor as Jesus taught us so long ago. Every Christian should read this heart-rending message.”
“Anti-Semitism among Christians who consider themselves ‘biblical’ is perhaps the most unconscious of sins. An anti-Jewish reading of the Bible goes largely unnoticed in church and is rarely commented upon. Here, a long-time practicing minister and biblical scholar guides his readers on an enlightening historical journey that will take both Christians and Jews out of their over-learned ways of understanding what the Bible teaches. Taken seriously, this book can provide a step toward honest reconciliation.”
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