Leadership Forums

Hashivenu recognizes the vital importance of helping Messianic Jewish leaders develop solid consensus on key areas of theological concerns:

• What principles should guide our interpretation of Scripture?
• How does the Torah relate to Messianic Jews in the post-modern world?
• What is the flow of the Bible's grand story as understood from a Messianic Jewish perspective?

These and other key questions form the substance of our Forums - gatherings of fifty-plus key leaders for an intensive three days of meetings. High-level papers are read, and movement-shaping discussion follows.

Hashivenu Leadership Forums have a clear and profound affect on emerging Messianic Judaism.

Forum Paper Archive

2001 - Hermeneutics

Select Aspects of My Hermeneutical Journey - by Stuart Dauerman

Scripture As Inspired, Canonical Tradition - by Mark Kinzer

Re-Imagining of the Canonical Text - by Paul Saal

2002 - Canonical Narrative

Making Israel's Story Our Own - by Stuart Dauerman

Beginning with the End: The Place of Eshatology in the Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative- by Mark Kinzer

Origins and Destiny: Isreal, Creation and the Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative - by Paul Saal

2003 - Jewish Tradition

The Value of Tradition - by Dan Juster

A Biblical Defense of Oral Torah- by Mark Kinzer

A Historical Perspective on Oral Torah - by Michael Schiffman

2004 - Yeshua and Redemption

Jewish Expectations of Redemption - Is There Room For Yeshua? - by Elazar Brandt

A Divine Tapestry - Reading the Siddur, Reading Redemption, Reading Yeshua- by Jonathan Kaplan

Communal Aspects of the Besorah - by Carl Kinbar

2005 - Embodying Redemption

Traveling Together on the Road to Redemption - The Messianic Jewish Contribution to a Revitalized World - by Rich Nichol

Toward a Messianic Jewish Moral Vision - by Paul Saal

Jewish Life as Sacrament - by Kay Silberling

2006 - Postmissionary Messianic Judaism

Toward Redefining Messianic Jewish Engagement With the Wider Jewish World: Reflections on Mark Kinzer's 'Post Missionary Messianic Judaism' - by Stuart Dauermann

A Sketch of a Better Tomorrow: A Next Generation Response to Post Missionary Messianic Judaism - by Jason P. Sobel

Implications of Postmissionary Messianic Judaism on Christian Faith and Practice - by H Bruce Stokes

Response to Mark Kinzer's 'Post Missionary Messianic Judaism' : Redefining Christian Engagement with the Jewish People - by Charles Van Engen