If you are confused by the title – knowing that Passover was last Wednesday and Easter was yesterday – that’s ok. We are confusing people.

In a nut shell (walnut), we decided that instead of a having a “traditional” Easter service – we would host a Passover Seder for entire church on Easter Sunday.

The idea to do this started when our pastor bumped into a guy who leads a Messianic Jewish group in his home at a Vineyard Boise men’s meeting. After talking to this man and his wife, we invited them to come to Sweet and speak at the church.

It was amazing!!  [@more@]

We set up tables throughout the gym with grape juice, water, horseradish, eggs, charoset, matzo and saltwater. (hmm…there were some other items but I can’t remember them all). At the head of the room was the Messianic couple with their table – fully decked out with all kinds of cool stuff.

After a few a cappella worship songs, we launched into the Seder meal with references to Jesus’ Last Meal 2,000 years ago. The faces of folks as they begin to understand and see the connections that the Lord put into the meal leading to Jesus were wonderful. =)

For me, the biggest ah-ha moment was near the end when I realized that Jesus’ drank the third “wine” cup – the cup of redemption – but did not drink from the fourth cup – the cup of praise.

It brings a new light to the Eucharist.