another passover thread

[NOTso angry-amy]

last year on passover my parents asked that i go with them to boston for a big family seder. this was hard because for every passover that i have been a believer i have hosted passover for my christian friends. but they asked that i go, and i couldnt turn them down.

i am the only believer in my family... in my extended family even. anyway, when we got to the part of the service where you open the door for elijah my mom pinched my leg. she whispered to me that i could excuse myself if it was against christianity.

i told her thanks but no thanks and stayed at the table. in fact i even offered to open the door. my mom looked at me confused. i later explained to her that i have the messiah in my life everyday, and i constantly pray that they will invite Him (y'shua) into their lives... even just for one day. elijah comes before the messiah...so that was my logic.

it is difficult to do particularly jewish things with my family as they are so worried that things would offend me. now i have said that i will do passover with them in boston again this year. iam freaked out over this.

 

[Talmid HaYarok]

I'll keep you in prayer Amy. My family also doesn't respect my MJ beliefs and practices whether because they're Jewish or because they're simply religious. Even if I'm lucky enough that nothing is said, the disapproving stares I get it from my own family makes me hurt.

Anyways I'm new to Boston myself and it looks like whatever Passover I keep will be by myself.

 

[NOTso angry-amy]

i would invite you, but i think that 2 believers would kill the older ones.

 

[Talmid HaYarok]

ROFL

Yeah, I know how that goes or else the older ones would kill the two believers.

Don't worry too much, I'm used to celebrating holidays by myself. In college because of my family's inhospitality  and the desire not to take long trips for the sake of it I generally celebrated holidays by myself or with my international student friends.

I'll probably come up with something creative to write about yet.

 

[MissytheButterfly]

Awww Amy. I will keep you in prayer as well. Hopefully, your family will see the enhancement that the Messiah gives to your being Jewish. But it sounds like your family is pretty neat to invite you to Passover and your mom to even think about what goes against Christianity for you.

I guess I don't neccessarily picture Jews that don't believe in Messiah as lost because of Romans 11:25-31. Now I am not saying you are saying this at all, I just know some people think if Jews don't do what is "Christian" then they will be ****** to hell. I just don't agree with that.. I feel they will be saved because of what it says in Romans 11.

Just remain calm while doing the Passover with your family. And remember what it means to you and that keeping it is keeping a command instituted by God. You seem to have your head on straight. I think you will do wonderfully.

Missy

 

[NOTso angry-amy]

missy. i agree to a certain extent.

i like rom 11 because it makes me feel better about my parents. at the same time, i know that there is a difference between an observant jew and a non-observant one.

i dont believe that i would have been saved without Y'shua. i had fallen away. i needed Y'shua in my life to know what love and salvation meant. my mother is observant... and she knows what love and salvation mean. judaism saved her. my father never goes to services, and he never prays. he is bar mitzvah, but he may have been lost.

when i pray for my family, i know it sounds crazy. i pray for both my parents, but i pray that my father will find some semblance of faith.

 

[MissytheButterfly]

Well Amy that is very understandable. I will continue to pray for you and your family in this matter. In any event, I hope you have a wonderful Passover this year and every year.

Bless you,
Missy