Aren't Messianic Jews just Christians With a Slight Twist?

A lot of people wonder, aren’t Messianic Jews just Christians with a little bit of a slight twist? Well, maybe.

Messianic Jews are Jewish followers of Jesus – people that are Jewish, that have put their faith in Jesus, that want to continue to live a Jewish life and express their faith in Jesus in a Jewish way. So yes, you could say that Messianic Jews are Christian in the sense that they’ve put their faith in Christ or Jesus with a slight twist.

However, we want to make a distinction here that Jews who put their faith in Jesus or Messianic Jews, as some call them, continue to live a Jewish life. So we’re losing the name “Christian” because we’d like to say that if you’re a Christian, you’re a non-Jewish follower of Jesus. So no, Messianic Jews are not just Christians with a slight twist.

We affirm that the Messianic Jewish community is itself its own community that has the freedom to choose to live a Jewish life as followers of Jesus and express themselves however they feel the Lord is leading them.