While much of the modern church is busy trying to make Jesus Christ more acceptable to the culture, the underground church in China is wrestling with a far more dangerous question: what if Jesus was exactly who He claimed to be—a Jewish Messiah sent first to the Jews?
In this provocative episode, Eugene Bach confronts one of the most controversial passages in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 7 – the encounter with the Syrophoenician woman, a passage critics and progressive pastors alike have used to accuse Jesus of racism, exclusion, and ethnic superiority. But Eugene leans directly into it, unpacking the passage through the eyes of the underground church in China, where believers read the Bible without the filters of Western political correctness, academic revisionism, or cultural compromise.
This episode is not polished, sanitized, or wrapped in easy answers. It is the kind of conversation forged among believers who have spent more time with a Bible in prison cells than in seminaries. Drawing from first-hand meetings with persecuted house church leaders facing raids, arrests, and surveillance, Eugene explores the hard-edged reality of a Messiah who never denied His Jewish identity and never softened the truth to fit the spirit of the age.
Whether you agree with every conclusion or not, this episode will challenge you with the faith of believers who have almost nothing, yet still believe that even a single crumb from the Master’s table is enough to change everything.
Listen now to Episode 801: “Racist Jesus?” on the Back to Jerusalem Podcast:
