Sarah C. (elizardbreath) reviewed Awakening To Messiah: Messianic Rabbi Schneider, host of "Discovering The Jewish Jesus", shares his faith. on + 22 more book reviews
I have mixed feelings about this book---it was kind of all over the place. The impression I got when I purchased it was that it was a testimony of this Jewish man's coming to faith in Yeshua. It started out that way but then it became a manual on how to witness to Jewish people---then it turned into a list of Messianic prophecies to convince Jews, as if the book were written TO Jews. So, not necessarily a bad thing---but just not very well organized. Basically, the guy wanted to write three books.
I got pretty frustrated with him early in because, though he seems to value Torah, he's swallowed a lot of the mainstream churchianity nonsense that we walked away from when we realized how UNBiblical a lot of it was. So that's sad... At one point he says, "the truth is God wants to make known to us that we don't need to be better doers; we need to be better receivers. Our lives should be that of continuously receiving from the Lord..." And that, my friends, is what's wrong with the church in a nutshell. James 1:22 tells us to be doers of the word and not hearers only; not to mention the entitled garbage attitude that comes with thinking your relationship with the Father is about what He can give you.
He talks about celebrating Valentine's Day (a satanic-inspired, nonBiblical observance); he's quite obsessed with Kansas City's IHOP (which has had some crazy stuff come out of there); and when discussing Sabbath, he mentions resting "one day a week", without emphasizing there is a specific day (7th day) on which we are commanded to rest. His misinterpretation of Matthew 15:24 misrepresents who Israel is today (those who obey the commands and have the testimony of Yeshua) and there's a lot of emphasis on the salvation of the Jews ushering in the Messiah. I don't see that specifically in the scriptures he shared (not to say I don't want to see them saved)
He also makes it sound like temple sacrifices are done away with forever, yet we read in passages like Isaiah 56:6-8; Zechariah 14:16; Jeremiah 33:15-18, and especially Ezekiel 43:18-46:24 that they will continue in the Millennial reign of Yeshua. So... I don't know, it was hard to really take the guy seriously when he either doesn't know the Word or doesn't believe it.
I got pretty frustrated with him early in because, though he seems to value Torah, he's swallowed a lot of the mainstream churchianity nonsense that we walked away from when we realized how UNBiblical a lot of it was. So that's sad... At one point he says, "the truth is God wants to make known to us that we don't need to be better doers; we need to be better receivers. Our lives should be that of continuously receiving from the Lord..." And that, my friends, is what's wrong with the church in a nutshell. James 1:22 tells us to be doers of the word and not hearers only; not to mention the entitled garbage attitude that comes with thinking your relationship with the Father is about what He can give you.
He talks about celebrating Valentine's Day (a satanic-inspired, nonBiblical observance); he's quite obsessed with Kansas City's IHOP (which has had some crazy stuff come out of there); and when discussing Sabbath, he mentions resting "one day a week", without emphasizing there is a specific day (7th day) on which we are commanded to rest. His misinterpretation of Matthew 15:24 misrepresents who Israel is today (those who obey the commands and have the testimony of Yeshua) and there's a lot of emphasis on the salvation of the Jews ushering in the Messiah. I don't see that specifically in the scriptures he shared (not to say I don't want to see them saved)
He also makes it sound like temple sacrifices are done away with forever, yet we read in passages like Isaiah 56:6-8; Zechariah 14:16; Jeremiah 33:15-18, and especially Ezekiel 43:18-46:24 that they will continue in the Millennial reign of Yeshua. So... I don't know, it was hard to really take the guy seriously when he either doesn't know the Word or doesn't believe it.
