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 TNN
Online Turns 15
excerpted from the January
2012 edition of OIM News
Throughout our time as a family, spent
in the Messianic movement, we have
learned that it is essential for every
one of us to have a long term
perspective. This year, on August 15,
the
TNN Online website (tnnonline.net)
will commemorate its fifteenth
anniversary. In this period of time, the
website has obviously gone through some
upgrades, remodeling, and articles have
been updated or even rewritten. We have
seen a wide number of changes, both good
and not so good, to the Messianic
community we serve. We have diagnosed a
number of controversial issues that have
changed, or will likely change, what the
Messianic movement
emerges into in the future.
When the TNN Online
website started in 1997, it was a high
school hobby for John McKee, who was
very interested in Bible prophecy from a
Messianic perspective, especially with
the end of the Twentieth Century
looming. As he entered into college in
1999, and to his graduation in 2003, the
focus of the site shifted toward
addressing Messianic apologetics and our
unique Torah practices. One of the main
reasons he started writing was that he
was unsatisfied with the array of
Messianic teaching materials available,
which really did not address the
questions that he was being asked as a
Messianic Believer by his Christian
peers. Later, TNN Online necessarily
went through some expansions from
2005-2008 when John finished his M.A. in
Biblical Studies. A major feature of TNN
Online today is the Wednesday Night
Bible Study podcast, where there is a
systematic verse-by-verse analysis
conducted of Biblical books.
As we reflect as a family ministry back from 1997
to the present, Outreach Israel
Ministries would not be what it is
without
the TNN Online website. It is a vital
part of who we are, and our ability to
present well-reasoned answers to the
questions that outsiders ask about our
distinct Messianic faith,
and
questions being asked internally within
our faith community. The next fifteen
years will surely prove to be quite
exciting! While we cannot predict
everything that will take place, what we
can be assured of is that
the wide array of material and Bible
teaching accessible will only get
bigger!
The TNN Online website will remain an
essential component of the ministry
service of Outreach
Israel.
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