Yet in our era the Christian witness often seems to lack both good missionary strategy toward the Jew and a sensitivity to his situation in life. However compelling they may be, evidences of Jesus' Messiahship are not necessarily the best point of contact with the twentieth-century Hebrew. The long story of persecution of the Jew in the so-called Christian West has only too often dropped a silencing curtain over the Christian witness. The conflict between faith and secularism among Jews regathered in Israel has reiterated the spiritual problem with new impact. Even many a Jew in the West, who has no desire to surrender the culture and comfort of the New World, and therefore invests money rather than muscle in the Palestinian vision, nonetheless also recognizes the seeming worthlessness of life today.
Most men are now convinced that doing things faster holds no guarantee that life becomes better.
Actually the age of speed seems the more swiftly to have deteriorated morality and spirituality. It is at this point of the emptiness of life that the Christian witness finds its most direct point of contact with modern Jewry. Christ's capacity to banish the drab monotony of existence by restoring confused, lost souls to the fellowship of the Father, and by meeting life's deepest spiritual needs, is today's most fruitful Christian contact with the Hebrew world. The greater percent of Jewry has lost its Old Testament heritage just as fully as the Gentile world has forsaken its Christian inheritance. It becomes strategic therefore to approach the Jew today first as a modern man rather than as a Hebrew.