Don Finto

“Not all that long ago, I was in a room with Jewish and Gentile leaders in the larger body of Jesus-followers. The horror of the Holocaust was being discussed, and one of the Gentile pastors looked over at one of my Jewish friends and remarked almost casually,
"Next time we'll stand with you."
Almost reflexively, as if responding from lifelong pain and betrayal, my Jewish friend blurted out,
"I don't believe you!"
I think he was shocked at his own words, but added,
"That has never been the case in history."
I was heavily impacted by the encounter. Somewhere it was stored in the inner recesses of my soul, so that on another occasion, following a showing of films from the Holocaust, I turned to this same Jewish friend and said, under a Holy Spirit anointing and with tears streaming down my cheeks,
"I vow to you in the name of Yeshua, that I will stand with you even to death."
His response?
"I believe you, Don."
My prayer for all of us is that we establish such deep friendships across these turbulent ancient "racial" lines, so that even among Jewish people who are not believers in Yeshua, we Gentiles will become the Corrie ten Booms and the Oskar Schindlers of our time.”
― Don Finto, Your People Shall Be My People