I grew up in a church which shared a block with a small synagogue. Our town did not have a rabbi, so these families depended upon Jewish clergy from a larger city nearby to provide leadership for this congregation. Our pastor gently referred to this body as the "Old Testament wing of the church." I did not think much about it since it was not said derisively.
Later when the big Baptist church wanted to expand, it built a new synagogue across the street with the consent of our Jewish neighbors. This event surely made the news; it somehow seemed too collaborative for our conservative part of the world. In a convention whose president later claimed "God does not hear the prayers of a Jew," I knew instinctively this was wrong.
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