Robert Murray McCheyne—like the Puritans before him—prayed fervently for the conversion of Israel to the Lord.
As Herman Ridderbos once wrote, “There is . . . no contradiction between the definition of the essence of the New Testament church as the people of God and holding to Israel as the object of God’s irrevocable gift of grace and calling” (Paul: An Outline of His Theology, p. 360).
Today, on the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, John Piper suggests it would be an especially good time to pause to pray that our Jewish friends would come to a saving knowledge of the truth.