{"id":17,"date":"2025-12-07T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:02:14","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAQ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re on this journey together.&nbsp; I am a fellow student, not an expert or theologian, in all areas of Biblical study and the Hebraic roots of our faith.&nbsp; I study, learn, and grow daily in order to get wisdom and understanding (Prov 4:7).&nbsp; Many of the questions you may be asking yourself are questions I&#8217;ve already struggled with and found some answers.&nbsp; This collection of answers is not meant to be authoritative and exhaustive, but simply a pragmatic approach to dealing with some common questions and issues related to walking in the faith&nbsp;<em><strong>of<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;Yeshuah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I encourage you to seek out more detailed and theological answers to satisfy your own thirst for knowledge so that by getting wisdom you too can gain deeper understanding.&nbsp; However, research carefully under the guidance of the Holy Spirit so that you may discern the truth from lies.&nbsp; Do not rely on single sources of information, but verify facts against multiple sources and most especially YHWH&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are welcome to submit new FAQ topics via our &#8216;contact&#8217; page.&nbsp; I will do my best to respond in a timely manner and post the response on this page as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211; Pastor Todd<strong>What are the three separate portions of the weekly Sabbath readings?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parashiot we use as a Messianic body contains reading portions from the Torah, the Haftarah, and the B&#8217;rit Chadashah.&nbsp; Special selections may also be read in place of, or in addition to, standard readings on certain Holy Days and Festivals.<br><strong>What is the Torah?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Torah is comprised of the first five books of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), also known as the five books of Moses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B&#8217; Reisheet (Genesis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sh&#8217;mot (Exodus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VaYikra (Leviticus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B&#8217;Midbar (Numbers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D&#8217; Varim (Deuteronomy)<strong>What is the Haftarah?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Haftarah is the selection chosen from among the prophetic books (the Nevi&#8217;im) to be read during the Shabbat service.<br><strong>What is the B&#8217;rit Chadashah?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The B&#8217;rit Chadashah means &#8220;New Covenant&#8221; and in the Messianic faith names the collection of books commonly known to most everyone as the New Testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright 2012 New Covenant Fellowship. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAQ We&#8217;re on this journey together.&nbsp; I am a fellow student, not an expert or theologian, in all areas of Biblical study and the Hebraic roots of our faith.&nbsp; I study, learn, and grow daily in order to get wisdom and understanding (Prov 4:7).&nbsp; Many of the questions you may be asking yourself are questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfministry.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}