What is Grafted Together?
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Grafted Together is a movement. It is about Christians coming together to learn about the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith. It is about Christians coming together, not directly administered or run by the institutional church, to reach out into the Jewish community to actively bless them and share Messiah with them. It is about Christians and Messianic Jews coming together to worship and serve in unity.
It is about fulfilling the prayer of our Savior from John 17:20-23:
"I pray not only for these, but also for those who will trust in me because of their word, that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are united with me and I with you, I pray that they may be united with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one -- I united with them and you with me, so that they may be completely one, and the world thus realize that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.
What a powerful mission! Working together in the power and direction of the Ruach HaKodesh, the Set-Apart Spirit, to join in union with all true believers, reaching out to the Messianic and non-Messianic Jews, and as a result, the world seeing that Yeshua is sent from God, and that God has loved them just as He has loved Yeshua.
What does Grafted Together mean?
Grafted Together is a reference to two passages written by Sha'ul (Paul) to non-Jewish Believers in Rome and in Ephesus. The grafted portion comes from the letter to the Romans:
Romans 11:16b-24
"...and if the root is holy, the branches are too. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in." Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?
The together portion comes from the letter to the Ephesians:
Ephesians 2:14-16
For He Himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity.