Those who are seeking a personal relationship with Christ have witnessed and experienced false teachers and their materialistic type of Christianity. They have been told that they must conform to a specific denomination's non-biblical beliefs and rules, or they can only use the King James Bible if they are to understand God's Word, and a whole, innumerable list of other demands that basically make a Seeker of Christ to be a "Born Again Materialist", and not a real follower of Christ. Many of us have seen this with churches popping up on every street corner. When we see people coming out of those churches, they're not happy at all. When speaking to them individually they lament about how they can not follow Christ in the way they read about it in the Bible, but they are told they must "follow the rules of the preacher and his denomination's interpretation of the Bible".
The Brethren of Messiah profess belief in the One Supreme Godhead as the eternal, infinite, immeasurable, incomprehensible, and invisible Creator of the Universe. He is one in substance, made known to His people as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe Yeshua (Christ) is the only Saviour and Lord, who being sent from the Godhead, incarnated as a man to open the opportunity to salvation for all of humanity.
The foundation of our faith lies in Yeshua (Christ). By our participation in the Brethren of Messiah, we adopt the practices of the First Church in Jerusalem, whose members were, according to the Book of Acts, of one heart and mind, and shared all things in common. We share their simple faith, as recorded in the Apostles' Creed and the Didache. We encourage private house fellowships rather than building costly church buildings and edifices.
It is our wish to preserve the primitive faith and practices of the Biblical Apostles of Jerusalem. Their faith is explained in the New Testament as well as outlined in the Apostles' Creed. The message of the Scriptures is very clear and anything more than this goes beyond the simple teaching of the Lord and His Apostles. Thus we reject the decrees of the Greek and Roman Church Councils, believing that the Divine Teachings within the Scriptures is sufficient for a proper understanding of the First Century A.D. Faith. We do not recognize Western Christianity as binding on God's people as a standard in matters of faith, custom, practice or discipline. We accept only that which is in harmony with the revealed and accepted Scriptures, namely: The Holy Scriptures (Old and New Testament) and the Didache. We follow the example of the ancient Believers in the early church of the New Testament.
The original followers of Yeshua (Christ) in the First Century A.D. were known as "followers of the Way," and they did not follow the traditions of Christianity as it is known today in the West. The Western religion and tradition has nothing to do with the original "followers of the Way." There is a major difference between the Biblical Christ and European Christianity.
Yeshua (Christ) "transcends all cultures and can incarnate Himself into all cultures because He died and rose again for all nations, peoples, tribes, languages and cultures. His desire is to incarnate Himself into each and every type of people, for example, into each and every culture. Therefore when Christ comes to a specific country He comes not as the 'European Christ' but as the Great Prophet Teacher of the valleys, plains, plateaus and the seas. He is the true Teacher who came to fulfill the cry of our for-fathers who cried 'take me out of untruth and show me the truth, take me out of darkness and let me be in the light, set me free from this bondage of death and give me immortality. Yeshua says "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. I am the Light of the world. He who walks after me will not walk in darkness but have the Light of Life."
While we will speak out against religions or practices that promote harm to humanity, whether that harm is in physical or spiritual form, The Brethren of Messiah will proclaim our Holy Faith without any wish to harm the faith or sentiments of other religions. We earnestly wish that all people will live in peace and harmony with one another, regardless of their religious affiliation.
Men and women are free to embrace or reject our religion by using their free will without any prejudice. We never practice any kind of coercion, and we respect the peoples of all faiths. We acknowledge that God works in all who strive for truth, justice and peace, no matter which family within true religion they ascribe to.
We do not state that persons of various denominations are not being our brothers and sisters in the Greater Body of Christ, but their ways are not our ways, and find many of their customs, practices and doctrines not in harmony with the Holy Scriptures, and as such we will not permit such falsehoods to infiltrate our congregations.
The time has come for a serious movement that says enough to the European, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant claim of ownership over the Believers of Yeshua. We are thoroughly disgusted, sickened and oppressed to Western forms of Christianity. People are crying out for something real in their churches and community groups. It is time to kick the snake oil salesmen to the curb, and learn from the ancient primitive church of Yeshua (Christ).
Just because a person worships Yeshua, does not make them a Christian. This is a very strong statement and this is how we feel about worshipping Yeshua. We wish to encourage people to walk away from the false concepts of Western Christianity and embrace Yeshua and His Way.
Even people living in North America, are pigeon holed in churches that they need to conform to the false way, which causes the life of the individual who wants to experience the Lord in a very personal way to be drained. Western Christianity is clothed in materialism and have thrown the precious cloak of Yeshua out in the streets in favor of Greek and Roman attire.
The Brethren of Messiah wishes to get in touch with the pre-Roman, pre-Greek, pre-European expression of the faith of Yeshua and His Apostles as expressed from our ancient cultures.