Boris Grisenko has been the Senior Rabbi (pastor) of KJMC from the very beginning.
Rabbi Boris is also the Vice Chairman of the Ukrainian Interchurch Council and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Theology from CLST (Christian Life School of Theology).
Within the Сongregation, he initiated forms of ministry that were somewhat unusual for religious communities at the time, such as clubs, coffee rooms, outdoor Shabbats (Saturday services) and concerts devoted to biblical holidays. For the first time ever, KJMC began to regularly use original Jewish music that had been developed in the territory of Ukraine in the 18th and 19th centuries during their Shabbat services to praise God. Thousands of people have repented over the years that the Сongregation has been at work thanks to these services.
We are faced with a choice or to submit ourselves to the Kingdom of God and His power, or to avoid this choice. Or we place our fears, temptations, problems and sins on the throne of our hearts.
Message to the Messianic Hebrews 4:9-10 says “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.” (NKJV) This is a reminder for us that the main and global principle of Saturday (Shabbat) is connected with its ordinance on the seventh day of creation.
REASON #9
"All that hype around Jews and Israel, around what we all must love Jews, around what the 'Jewish roots, Jewish roots, Jewish roots' and on and on, as if there are no more important questions for the church of God. This sensation annoys me (options: embarrasses me, upsets me, saddens me, outrages me)."
It is important that we crack the shell where the fire of God's love is hiding. His love has already poured out into our hearts! We don't have to pray over again to be born again. This fire is already in our hearts! But the shell of selfishness, individualism, self-obsession, fear of people, self-importance, godless isolation, complexes and misunderstanding of the issue "why do we live for?" - this shell puts out that fire.
You better reconsider your relationship with loved ones, it shouldn't be in the way of your relationship with God. Yeshua said in Matthew 10:37( NKJV) , “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.” Keep this in mind and avoid extremes.
During the Exodus, Jewish people had neither the Spirit of God nor even the initial knowledge of the God who brought them out to freedom. That is why every day they demanded new superficial and visible blessings as proof that they went out of bondage not in vain and they could trust the heaven-sent Prophet. There were cucumbers and meat in the bondage but on the outside there were freedom, sand and manna so far only…
Once, I made for myself a list of reasons of why people have an interest in Jewish Messianic ministry. This list has formed as a result of a gradual gathering of statistical information. Before we will address this issue according to the Bible, I would like to consider some items I have discovered over the last few years on why people often take part in the events which are about to something of 'Jewish-Messianic'.
The sweetness of slavery is natural for many people. Slavery gives reliability and confidence in the future. You do not manage your life as it is being managed for you.