NPR's John Burnett reports on the on-going controversy over a Southern Baptist Convention resolution to evangelize Jews. Many Jewish leaders consider the Baptist mandate to convert them arrogant and ominous. Southern Baptists believe they are under orders from God to bring the Jews to Jesus. Recently, at a meeting of the Anti-Defamation League in New York, a Southern Baptist representative tried unsuccessfully to convince an angry Jewish audience of the rightness of his denomination's course. It's the latest round in a debate as ancient as Judaism and Christianity themselves.

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