Friday, June 01, 2007

For Zion's sake
By WILL KING
May. 30, 2007


The small university town of Tubingen in Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany first expelled all of its Jewish residents in 1477. Since then it has historically also been the origin of various church doctrines directed against the Jews.

In the 1930s the town was among the first to again expel all of its Jewish residents, prompting the mayor to write a letter to Hitler proclaiming this news and asking him to become an honorary citizen of Tubingen, which he gladly accepted. Now, in addition to a tiny Jewish community that has returned to the town, the T bingen Offensive Stadtmission church, commonly known as TOS, has grown over the last 20 years to some 250 members who all have a special love for Israel and the Jewish people.

Most of the churches in Germany are either Protestant or Catholic and are managed by the state, so for an independent, Israel-loving church to survive and flourish is indeed something special. The TOS is a large tent built on top of railroad tracks that once deported Jews from the town to camps throughout Germany and Poland, but the spirit of the church is founded on acknowledgment and repentance for the sins of their forefathers. the rest

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