''Recovering the church's Hebraic heritage is restoring an over-Hellenized, over-Latinized Christianity to the faith of Jesus and the apostles. It is replacing the church's traditional Greco-Roman dualistic mindset with the biblically Hebraic holistic mindset in which the earliest church expressed their faith and devotion to God. Believers' lives are being enriched as they become more truly Christian (Christ-like) by being more like their Jewish Lord.'' - So says John D. Garr, Ph.D. of the Restoration Foundation. 

After they were filled with the Spirit, the early believers in Yeshua overcame their fears and were frequently to be found in and around the temple - especially during the set times of prayer. When King Solomon built the Temple, he specifically asked God to heed the prayer of the non-Jew who comes to the Temple (1 Kings 8:41-43). The Jewish prophet refers to the Temple as a "House of prayer for all nations" (Isaiah 56.7). To see a live webcam view of the Kotel (Western Wall) click here.

There are many useful resources available for Christians and Messianic believers who are interested in learning more about reconnecting with their Hebrew Roots as a means of experiencing authentic Christianity as it was lived out in the first 320 years after Jesus's resurrection - before Emperor Constantine's disasterous involvement.

K.P. Yohannan recently wrote an excellent book called The Road to Reality - Coming Home to Jesus From An Unreal World in which he, as a 'gentile' Christian author and the chairman of Gospel for Asia, takes a behind the scenes view at the snowballing decline of contemporary Christianity over the years. His alarming conclusions include the fact that that modern or contemporary Christianity has become a false religion in a modern world and is little more than a headless corpse. He further maintains that we are following false shepherds and are being ravaged by deceived men who spread half-gospels and lead millions astray with false teachings, as per 2 Peter 2:1,14,17. (Quotes and paraphrased based on pages 26, 32, 38)

The essence of Idolatory is that we create a God in our own image and that we go on to treat our opinions about God as being the Truth about God. Idolatory therefore involves harbouring false thoughts about God and this is what is characteristic of the worship of the Samaritans when Yeshua said: 'you know not what you worship'. The children of Israel also committed idolatory in that they built a golden calf and said 'this is YHWH'. The god of Western Capitalism is a self created god of health and wealth - to say that he is YHWH is Idolatory. Others create a 'god of my emotional need' which defines sin as nothing more than a lack of self esteem which constitutes an idolatorous concept of YHWH. These gods typically set no standards and make no judgements on their worshipers - they are more or less exactly what they want him to be. Another lie is that God is more tollerant today than he used to be, but scripturally we know that He never changes. Comments drawn from Erwin W. Lutzer, 10 Lies about God and How You May Be Already Deceived.

Does this sound too radical? Look at what is going on around you. Did you know that The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was inducted as a druidin a centuries-old Celtic ceremony in 2002? He represents an estimated 70 million Anglican Christians worldwide. See the story reported by the BBC here . To quote further from the BBC : ''Dr Rowan Williams, the current Archbishop of Wales, said that he had been "saddened" by the misrepresentations about the ceremony, which sparked concern about pagan links. "Some people have reached the wrong conclusion about the ceremony," he said. "If people had actually looked at the words of the hymns and text used they would have seen a very Christian service."  This is bizarre- one cannot be a druid and a Christian at the same time simply because druids believe in many Gods and they also believe in reincarnation.

And that 's not all. In another article on the BBC it appears that The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams also advocates homosexuality. To quote the BBC again: ''For over 20 years Rowan Williams, a noted theologian, academic and author, has eloquently advocated that Christianity and homosexuality should be viewed as wholly consistent with each other''. See the story online by clicking: here.

Should you feel that you want to research any of this for yourself, like my daughter says: just ask Google.

Modern philosopher Sören Kierkegaard, in his Attack Upon Christendom, wrote: "The Christianity of the New Testament simply does not exist. Millions of people through the centuries have little by little cheated God out of Christianity, and have succeeded in making Christianity exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament" (pp. 32–33).

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, in his handbook, The Story of the Christian Church, makes this striking point:

"We name the last generation of the first century, from 68 to 100 A.D., "The Age of Shadows," partly because the gloom of persecution was over the church; but more especially because of all periods in the history, it is the one about which we know the least. We have no longer the clear light of the Book of Acts to guide us; and no author of that age has filled the blank in the history. We would like to read of the later work by such helpers of St. Paul as Timothy, Apollos and Titus, but all these and St. Paul’s other friends drop out of the record at his death. For fifty years after St. Paul’s life a curtain hangs over the church, through which we strive vainly to look; and when at last it rises, about 120 A.D. with the writings of the earliest church fathers, we find a church in many aspects very different from that in the days of St. Peter and St. Paul" (1970, p. 33).