Weve been robbed!

These words of a Methodist bishop in Brazil, an Anglican leader in India, and a Pentecostal overseer in Africa, expressed the sentiments of thousands of Christians around the world when they first discovered through the challenging teaching of Dr. John D. Garr the extent to which they have been deprived of the Hebrew heritage of their Christian faith.

For the past nineteen centuries, millions of believers have been denied their biblical legacy, the riches of the Hebrew foundations of their faith. Christian Judaeophobia, anti-Judaism, and anti-Semitism have conspired to rob them of the treasures of their inheritance.

Our Lost Legacy presents selected essays and lectures in which Dr. Garr urges the church to recover its Hebrew heritage, its connection with the Jewish matrix from which it was produced. These pages call Christians back to the Bible, to the roots of faith that enrich lives and equip believers to achieve greater maturity through a more complete knowledge of Jesus, our Jewish Lord.

As you read this volume, youll be simply amazed at just how Jewish Christianity really is! And youll be determined to recover your lost legacy in the Hebrew heritage of your faith.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1: Biblical Judaism The Root of Christian Faith

Chapter 2: Hold to Gods Unchanging Hand

Chapter 3: Is God Really All That Fickle?

Chapter 4: Theres Only One Way!

Chapter 5: Jewish Jesus or Cosmic Christ?

Chapter 6: A Perfect Sacrifice The Foundation of Christian Faith

Chapter 7: Christ, Our Righteousness

Chapter 8: Raised Again for Our Justification

Chapter 9: Nailed to the Cross

Chapter 10: The Faith of Abraham and Gods Covenant People

Chapter 11: Love: Gods Eternal Plan Fulfilled

Chapter 12: The Secret of Fulfilling the Law

Chapter 13: The Indwelling Holy Spirit

Chapter 14: Worship Mans Responsibility, Mans Opportunity

Chapter 15: Yahwehs Liturgical Calendar

Chapter 16: Koinonia Communion with God and Man

Chapter 17: Whats in a Symbol?

Chapter 18: This is My Name Forever

Chapter 19: Biblical Ecumenism Gods Challenge to Todays Church

Chapter 20: Lion or Lamb? The Messianic Question

Chapter 21: Israels Divine Appointment

Chapter 23: Bringing Back the Ark-A Restoration Strategy

Chapter 24: Restoration of Christianitys Judaic Heritage

Personal Reflections

Index

About the Author

Dr. John D. Garr is founder and president of Restoration Foundation, an international, transdenominational, multi-ethic networking organization that serves as an educational resource to the entire Christian church. An academician with a pastors heart, Dr. Garr is able to contextualize biblical truths in terms that laypersons can understand. He challenges believers to a biblically sound, Christocentric faith that is grounded in the Hebraic heritage of Jesus and the apostles.