A Response by David H. Stern

Mark Kinzer has written an original, broad and deep study of ecclesiology, presenting a paradigm shift in how to understand the relationships between the church, the Jewish people, and Messianic Jews. He writes: Despite its title, this is not mainly a book about Messianic Judaism but about the ekklesia—the community of those who believe in Yeshua the Messiah—and its relationship to the Jewish people. It is a book about supersessionism and the ecclesiological implications of its repudiation. Supersessionism teaches that the ekklesia replaces the Jewish people as the elect community in cov