Christianity is an "Unrecognized Judaism"

We were on the way to church this morning and I had the thought that Christianity is an"Unrecognized Judaism."  They use a New Testament that's written by Jews promoting what they believed to be the truest form of Judaism yet they don't recognize it as Judaism.  They love (and I believe they truly do love) Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah.  But they don't recognize Him as being very Jewish.  In fact, they think of Him as doing away with the Torah (which is not a very Jewish thing to do).

So Christianity is an Unrecognized Judaism (but obviously not Judaism in its truest form).  And really they're not all that far off.  The heart is the most difficult thing to change.  And their loving ministries show that they have had an inner change of heart.  I believe the rest will happen in time.  As they slowly begin to recognize the Jewishness of the New Testament and the Messiah Yeshua, their identity will transform.  And as their identity transforms, their practices will begin to conform to their newfound identity.

I've used the term "Orthodox Messianic Judaism" as a way of referring to an idea.  An idea that there is a true form of Judaism.  But the term isn't really important.  What is important is the idea--- to realize that there is a true form of Judaism and it will be a community in which Jews and gentiles treat each other as if they had been born from the same household.  Let's face it, you don't really love someone if you don't think of them as family.  When everyone realizes that we are born from the same Household (Yeshua's Undivided House of Israel) through our Passover Lamb Yeshua then we can all sit down together without feeling any separation.  On that great day we'll all experience true Shalom.