What We Believe

There is one God, who has revealed Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Every divine action in the world is accomplished by the Father working through the Son and in the power of the Spirit. God has revealed Himself through creation and through the history of Israel as recorded in Scripture.

God is the Creator of the heavens and the earth. He created humanity in the divine image to serve as creation's priest and ruler. God's design for creation involves differentiation, interdependence, and mutual blessing.

Through their exercise of free will, human beings disobeyed God, corrupted the divine image, and abandoned their sacred calling. As a result, God's purposes for creation were frustrated, and violence and disorder entered the world.

God chose Israel, the Jewish people, and entered into an everlasting covenant with them so they might be the firstfruits of a renewed humanity, who would mediate blessing and restoration to all the nations of the world.

God graciously gave Israel the Torah as a covenantal way of life and the Land of Israel as an inheritance and pledge of future blessing.

In the fullness of time, the Divine Son became a human being—Yeshua the Messiah, born of a Jewish virgin, a true and perfect Israelite. Yeshua lived as a holy tzaddik, perfectly fulfilling the commandments of the Torah and perfecting the human expression of the divine image.

Yeshua died as an atonement for the sins of Israel and of the entire world. He was raised bodily from the dead, as the firstfruits of the resurrection promised to Israel. He ascended to heaven and was enthroned as Israel's Messiah, with authority over all creation.

God poured out the Divine Spirit on the community of Yeshua's followers, so that they might be joined intimately to the Messiah as His Body and become the preliminary representation of the New Covenant fullness promised to Israel.

God added to this early Jewish community partners from among the nations who responded to the good news with faith. The community exists in diverse forms within Jewish and non-Jewish contexts. Its members are called to worship, neighborly service, and public testimony to Yeshua. Unity and love throughout the community confirm Yeshua's role and God's purpose for Israel and the nations.

Spiritual life is grounded in godly family units within the relational framework of congregations, whereby persons are to be encouraged, trained, and disciplined. Messianic Jewish congregations should strengthen families in their Jewish covenant calling and connect with Messianic Jewish associations for mutual enrichment and accountability.

The Torah is God's gift to Israel. It serves as the constitution of the Jewish people and thus also of the Messianic Jewish community, which comprises Israel's eschatological firstfruits.

The Torah does not bind Messianic communities from the nations in the same way, though it provides spiritual nourishment and witnesses to the Messiah. It offers universal behavioral norms and life teaching applicable to all generations within the framework of the New Covenant.

Forgiveness of sins, spiritual renewal, union with Messiah, the empowering and sanctifying presence of the indwelling Ruach Ha Kodesh, and the confident hope of eternal life and a glorious resurrection are now available to all, Jews and Gentiles, who put their faith in Yeshua. These blessings come through faith, immersion into Messiah's Body, and participation in His remembrance meal.

Yeshua is the Mediator between God and all creation, and no one can come to the Father except through Him.

Messiah Yeshua will return to Jerusalem in glory at the end of this age, to rule forever on David's throne. He will restore Israel completely, raise the dead, save His followers, judge the unrighteous, and accomplish the final restoration in which Israel and the nations unite under His rule forever, in mutual blessing and fellowship with God.

The writings of Tanakh and Brit Hadasha are divinely inspired and fully trustworthy (true), a gift given by God to His people, provided to impart life and to form, nurture, and guide them in the ways of truth. They hold supreme and final authority in matters of faith and practice.

Jewish tradition connects contemporary Jews to their biblical heritage and provides resources for developing a Messianic Jewish way of life. Christian theological tradition offers valuable insights into Messiah's revelation and will.