“While it is true that at the present time a majority of believers in Yeshua are Gentiles – a fact we celebrate! – Yeshua is truly the Jewish Messiah.  Faith in Yeshua cannot make Jews into Gentiles.

Allow me to illustrate this idea with a story about a Jewish restaurant (the Bible), the food it served (Yeshua, ‘the Bread of Life’, John 6:35), and the mostly Gentile neighborhood where it was located (the world).

If this Jewish restaurant served such great food that many Gentiles became patrons of the restaurant, would that make the food non-Jewish? Of course not! Jews could still eat there and enjoy ‘home cooking’.

Let’s say those same Gentile patrons enjoyed the food so much that they took some home in their own non-Jewish containers.  This still wouldn’t alter anything about the food in the restaurant being Jewish.  And Jews who continue eating in that restaurant would not stop being Jewish.

The irony is this: at first some of the Jewish customers thought that any Gentile patron of such a Jewish restaurant had to become Jewish! In fact, it became a real controversy for the Jewish restaurant, so much so, that all of the original Jewish patrons came together to discuss this issue. It was finally decided that

Gentiles who eat Jewish food don’t become Jewish, just fulfilled Gentiles (you can read of the actual controversy and decision in Acts 15).

G-d, the Father, did not send Messiah to make Gentiles into Jews, or Jews into Gentiles, but to make all people His children, and a spiritual family by faith in Yeshua. G-d’s desire for Gentiles as well as Jewish people is that they trust in Israel’s Messiah.  In Him, Jews and Gentiles can have unity without uniformity.

Nadler, Sam. Messianic Discipleship. 2014 (v1.0) ed., Word of Messiah Ministries, 2012.