Our approach to the cultural literature of both Judaism and Christianity is to share an enthusiasm of faith through biblical studies by integrating within the study of New Testament an awareness of Old Testament traditions and early church history. Messiah’s conferences bring a pastoral awareness and an enhanced understanding about the character of the church through research into Scripture, church history and the patristic literature.
As such, our exciting Scriptural approach is broad and very comprehensive, being both intellectual as well as pastoral, yet importantly includes spirituality as well as theological issues. Therefore, we present Scripture using both an intellectual as well as a spiritual methodology that underlies our dynamic relationship with Christ Jesus, which we call “Divine Union.” Indeed, our relationship with Christ is one of union, and as St. Paul states in Ephesians, it is a love much like that of a husband and wife for it unites us as one body, into the one body. In this love that calls, we are drawn into the most fundamental relationship of all - that of being in Christ. In this type of love, God whispers in our ears through Scripture, “Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved” (Psa. 1:15). Within this love you find an eternal belonging so great that you only find happiness in union, and you refer to Christ asit states in the Song of Songs, “My lover belongs to me and I to Him” (Psa. 1:16). This is the way God calls us, longing for our response - to completely abandon ourselves to Him in love. It is a love so utterly complete and enduring that you see being united in Christ as even fundamental to your own existence. It is then ones response of faith becomes so united to the desires of the beloved that we become one with Christ in love. This is the beauty of our union in Christ.
