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. We taught them, and taught them, and they absorbed and questioned more and learned... and we eventually enrolled our eldest (4 at the time) into two different preschools -- the Catholic one 3 days/wk and the LCMS one the other 2 days/wk. Though we -- and he -- loved the teachers in both schools, we -- and he -- found he learned so much more about Jesus, the Bible, prayer, how to live life daily as a lover of Jesus... at the Lutheran preschool. We decided that LCMS teaching was close enough to Catholic teaching that we could accept him going there, but we taught him the peculiarly Catholic doctrines ourselves. We continued, from that year on, to enroll our children in the LCMS preschool, and to this day, all of our children have spent at least one year in that preschool... our second-youngest is enrolled now. so for now... this has wroked out all right for us... but I am so longing to have a community to really embrace, to help us in our efforts to rear Messianic sons and daughters who see faith and worship and live life from a Messianic Jewish understanding. 
Well, my spiritual journey began in high school. I was taking Intro to Judaism classes at the local synagogue. I was told I'd have to wait to convert because I was a minor and my parents were not in agreement. Then, when I was 16 I graduated high school and went away to university, putting my religious studies on hold. There, I met someone and got pregnant. This person's brother was a pastor and he would tell me how I was going to hell for what I had done unless I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal lord and savior. I resisted at first, but when my child was born, I became terrified of the thought that I would go to hell. I began going to church and said the prayer that would save me. I was heavily involved with the church for about 3 years, but the doctrine kept bugging me. I had already learned about Torah and halachah and now I was told that I couldn't follow what the Torah said because Jesus had abrogated the law. I was told that the law was a curse and if we attempted to follow it, we were under the curse of the law. I stopped going to church altogether, then went back to reading the Bible on my own. Once I got internet, I found out about Messianic Judaism and began reading up on that. I attended a Messianic congregation for about a year, but disagreed with so much again. While Torah was taught more than in the church, people were opposed to making a kosher kitchen, many would go out to lunch after services (while still wearing kippa and tallit), we were constantly warned that we shouldn't be 'legalistic' about following Torah and were told to stay away from studying Talmud. Eventually I left this congregation and returned to a Jewish congregation. Unfortunately I don't live in an Orthodox area, but most in this congregation lean heavily toward Orthodox practice. So, that is my journey and how I discovered messianic judaism.Hix said:Ok to try and balance the insane amount of passion threads I thought Id create a new one. So tell us all how in your spiritual journey you came to MJism. What verses in the Bible made you feel this was the right step? Did you come out of a particular denomination etc
Just for fun
Shalom and G-d bless
~Hix~
Oh btw that is a very interesting story Zemirah, thanks for sharing!
