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There have always been individual Jews who have come to faith in Jesus as the Messiah of Israel, and who have become members of Christian churches, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. Evangelical missionary efforts targeting the Jewish people intensified in the 19th century, probably stemming from heightened eschatological interest following the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars. From an early stage, there seems to have been at least a degree of tension between the Evangelical sponsors of evangelistic work among the Jews and the desires of those Jews who came to faith in Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. The British initiative had a focus on fellowship and pastoral care, where the HCAA had from the start a more missionary thrust, though it also sought to encourage Jewish believers in Jesus through occasional fellowship and a stronger sense of their identity. This development was not just a change in evangelistic tactics; it represented a clear change of direction arising from a sense of inner call. What happened to win over the Jewish believers in Jesus to the Messianic Jewish vision they had earlier been so loath to embrace?