What's unfortunate is that too many Jewish people have a bigoted and benighted view of active Christians. It's sad that for years they had to endure a bigotry and now they dispense it to another minority group. I think that the Hollyweird faction does play a part in this; I have yet to see a show which features evangelicals as stars and portrays them as anything other than repressed, deceitful, hate-filled hypocrites.
I think you may have hit on something. For some of my Jewish friends I am the only non-Catholic active Christian that they know. When you lack personal knowledge of something it is easy to fear it and believe what is said about it. (Yikes! I sound like a liberal there)
They did not come to me, I had to go to them to break the ice. It didn't start out as outreach I just wanted to take a class on Judaism. I just hope that now when they hear the expression "Evangelical Christian” that they have a real person with a real face to put with it rather then a liberal and media created boogie-man. And in the process I gained a deeper understanding of Christianity so insight was gained by all.
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