JewsOnFirst Conversation: Evangelical Protestants discuss messianic Jews

Conversation moderated by Rabbi Haim Dov Beliak, co-director of JewsOnFirst.org, June 23, 2007

This conversation is part of the report Southern Baptists Rely on Deception in Effort To Convert Jews and a companion conversation, Rabbis Discuss Messianic Jews

Use the player below to listen to this discussion with members of the Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism, which includes the following participants:

• The Rev. John Hubers, Reformed Church in America pastor who served international congregations in the Arabian Gulf states of Bahrain and Oman. Also pastor of two RCA churches in Michigan and New York. Was director of the Reformed Church in America's mission program in the Middle East and South Asia from 2001-2006. Currently PhD student in Christian-Muslim relations at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Webmaster of www.christianzionism.org.
• The Rev. Tony Richie. An ordained bishop and pastor in the Church of God (New Harvest in Knoxville, TN), Tony Richie is a third generation Pentecostal Christian. He has an earned doctorate (D Min) from Asbury Theological Seminary and is working on his second doctorate (D Th) from the University of South Africa. Dr Richie has served the Church of God as a missionary teacher in Quito, Ecuador (SEMISUD) and does adjunct and guest lecturing at denominational institutions such as Lee University and the Church of God Theological Seminary. He also speaks at various other Evangelical and Pentecostal institutions. On the national level, he serves the Society for Pentecostal Studies as liaison to the Interfaith Relations Commission (National Council of the Churches of Christ USA). On the international level, he represents Pentecostals on the Inter-Religious Relations Dialogue (World Council of Churches) and has spoken in Geneva, Switzerland and Rome, Italy on projects co-sponsored by IRRD and the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Relations (Vatican).
• Greg Brownfield, a lawyer and member of an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation in Chicago who got involved in issues in his church out of concern that it was part of the dispensationalist wing of evangelical Christianity and now works on issues of Christian Zionism and forms religious extremism that cause animosity between Christians, Muslims and Jews.