How should we relate to Israel in a situation where terror groups, Islamist dictatorships and ingrained anti-Semitism in the Middle East are made invisible in media reporting in a way that is reminiscent of how Hitler’s persecution of the Jews was silenced by media in the 1930s?
That is one of the questions being asked at the panel discussion held during the European Conference’s Israel meeting.
Jesus is the world’s most famous Jew and he grew up and was active in a context that was entirely Jewish. After the keynote speaker Israel Pochtar has spoken at the Europe Conference’s Israel meeting on July 30 at 2:30 p.m., you will listen to an exciting panel discussion about our Jewish roots and what the vulnerability of Israel and the Jewish people means for us Christians today, when anti-Semitism is growing and the Jewish people’s obvious place among the nations is being questioned.
Göran Lennartsson is a Pentecostal pastor and teacher at the Scandinavian Theological University where he teaches New Testament exegesis, specializing in its Jewish background.
He was raised in the Pentecostal movement and has been a full-time preacher since 1980. He received a Bachelor of Theology degree in Uppsala in 1979. His interest in Israel, the Jewish people and the Jewish background to Christian faith is rooted in his upbringing, but since the mid-1980s he has concretely involved work with Jewish-Christian relations. Studies in Jerusalem in the 1970s and living there for a few years in the 1990s, along with countless study trips with Scandinavian and international Christian leaders, make Jerusalem a “second home”.
Göran Lennartsson received his doctorate in theology in New Testament exegesis in Lund in 2007 and is the author of the book Inympad (Engrafted). He writes theological articles in, among other things, the journal Shalom over Israel.
Gitten Öholm is the chairman of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) Swedish branch, where she gives lectures on and organizes trips to Israel. She is the day-to-day operations manager of The new castle Bjärka-Säby, which is owned and operated by the Pentecostal congregation in Linköping. She has attended Bromma School’s music program and Kaggeholm’s media training program and has been active in Christian song and television production for many years.
Dag Juliussen has worked with ICEJ since 1996 and has produced several hundred radio and TV programs, participated in debates and visited churches, schools and Bible schools with teaching and sermons about Israel. In June 2014, Dag Øyvind Juliussen became national director of ICEJ Norway and are now coordinator for Northern Europe.
The moderator of the panel discussion is Ruben Agnarsson, journalist and author.
