Author and Middle East expert Joel Rosenberg had a major theme in mind for a prayer conference he organized in Jerusalem.
“We’re trying to focus on prayer and unity on Israeli Jewish and Arab believers, between the Messianic body of Israel and the Palestinian believers,” he told CBN News.
Rosenberg wants to connect believers in the West to the Holy Land by bringing middle America to the Middle East.
“What we could do uniquely was focus people on how do you, what does it mean to pray for the peace of Jerusalem?” he said. “We say that, but what does that mean? How can we pray Scripture? And how can we pray with the faces of Jewish and Arab Israeli and Palestinian believers’ right in front of us, stories we never knew before. That gave a chance to say, now I can go back to Wichita or San Diego or wherever; now I have a sense of who(m) I’m praying for.”
Two U.S. evangelical leaders saw those faces and experienced that unity.
“That’s the body of Christ, you know. We’re not divided, so there’s neither Jew nor Greek, there’s neither slave nor free, there’s neither male nor female, so we’re one in Christ,” said Anne Graham Lotz with Angel Ministries. “And so to come together, which they’re doing here at this summit, is just, it’s a revelation of what the body of Christ is, and as it was pointed out this morning, that’s a testimony to who Jesus is. It’s a testimony to the world that we can be one.”
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