Who is Ralph Messer accountable to?
"I will go out on a limb and say — it is virtually impossible that any UMJC or MJAA rabbi would have done something even half as embarrassing and wrong as Ralph Messer. The disease which leads to an explosion of Messer mania is caused by the need for maintaining power, success, and image through over-the-top antics instead of principled belonging and participation in a group of congregations whose combined presence and practice gives individual congregations something larger to belong to. A rabbi or pastor in a denomination doesn’t need to self-authenticate or prance like a rooster.
Currently, there is no association for Judeo-Christian congregations which are not primarily focused on the Jewish community. I think there should be. There certainly are organizations which might be called denominations for non-Jewish “Hebraic” groups. But the ones I am aware of are based on some erroneous theology (I’m thinking, for example, of a group which holds an annual conference based on the idea that non-Jews in Yeshua might be crypto-Israelites from the “lost tribes”)." SOURCE:
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