On April 8, 2014, Stockton Christian Fellowship hosted a Messianic Seder.  Keith Kendrex, advisor for the club, invited Ron, a Messianic Jew from Keith’s church, to lead the group in the discussion of the meal.  Throughout the meal, Ron also shared his testimony on how he found Jesus through the Seder.

A Messianic Seder is a Passover meal in which the items presented and the food eaten represent something related to the story of Jesus and his death.  One example of this is the matzah bread which is broken and fed to all.  This bread is the middle piece taken from a group of three within a white bag called a “matzah tosh.”  During the meal, this piece of bread had been hidden away until the family drank the third cup of wine.  This piece of matzah is symbolic of Jesus Christ, a part of the trinity.  The matzah is full of holes, symbolic of Jesus’ hands, feet, and side being pierced.  In the Bible, when Jesus performs the Passover meal, he tells his disciples that the bread is to be seen as his body.

Before the meeting, the leadership council got together to talk with Ron.  They discussed reasoning for Christianity’s truth as well as everyone’s testimonies as to why they became a Christian.  Ron shared his bout with depression during his time as a Jew and how he was prepared to commit suicide.  It wasn’t until a friend showed him that Jesus existed that he changed his mind and became a different person.

At the group meeting, both Christians and Jews attended.  Ron showed videos explaining the connection between the Passover meal and Christianity.  He paused them from time to time to allow the group to discuss what they had seen and to show them the meanings from his own Passover table which he set up in the middle of the room.

SCF meets every Tuesday night from 8:30 until 10:00 in the TRLC’s meeting room.