2012 Helsinki Consultation Invitation - Berlin June 29 - July 1

Dear friends,

I am writing you today to invite your online participation in a truly unique event: the 2012 Berlin Conference of the Helsinki Consultation on Jewish Continuity in the Body of Christ.

The Helsinki Consultation is a groundbreaking collaboration which brings together respected scholars – all of them Jewish – from a wide range of Jesus-believing traditions. It includes some of the leading thinkers in the Messianic Jewish world; the Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics in Israel; one of the most influential biblical scholars in the Seventh Day Adventist Church; and several brilliant researchers and writers from the Russian Orthodox Church. The event is co-led by a French Jewish Dominican Priest and an American Messianic Rabbi.

Despite the incredible diversity of background and theological orientation, this group of Jewish believers in Jesus has forged deep friendships, and has succeeded in articulating crucial points of agreement. All are convinced that Jewish identity has a profound theological significance, and that it should continue to be expressed within the Body of Christ by Jewish believers in Jesus.

This year’s conference in Berlin (June 29 – July 1) will examine the place of Torah in the life of Jewish believers in Yeshua. How may they draw upon the teaching of the Torah to respond to their distinctive calling as Jews?

You may not be able to travel to Berlin to attend the conference, but you can still watch and listen to all the sessions (which will be conducted in English) online. You may either watch live, or view at your leisure in recorded form.

The Helsinki Consultation has set up a web site just for the conference. The address is www.helsinkiconsultation2012.org.

You can register there for the event, and then participate in the conference through the same site.

To learn more about the Helsinki Consultation and its members, and to read the statements which Consultation members have produced over the last two years, go to www.helskinkiconsultation.org.

Never before have Jewish believers in Yeshua from such a wide range of theological, cultural, and ecclesial backgrounds gathered to probe these controversial questions. The conclusions reached here will set the agenda for Jewish life within the Body of Messiah for the coming century.

Best regards,

Mark Kinzer, on behalf of the Consultation.