Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who was the Savior of the world but also celebrated

Passover taught in synagogues or Jewish vestments and ordered his life

around the Jewish not the Christian calendar. So what happened? How did the church

forget that Jesus was an observant Jew? How has Jesus' identity as long

promised Messiah become such a fuzzy concept in the church.

How is Christianity wanted so far from the Judaism in which it was birth?

We'll be answering these questions and more with our guest, Jen Rosner.

I'm your host Scott Ray.

And I'm your host, Sean Macal. your host Sean Macal and this is think

biblically a podcast of Talbot School theology byola university. Jen

welcome you grew up in a Jewish home. Your book, Finding Messiah, tells that story, but tell our

listeners a little bit about how you came to faith in Jesus. Yeah, sure. Well,

first of all, thank you for having me. I'm honored to be here, and I would be happy to tell a bit of my story.

I did grow up in a Jewish home in Northern California.

And I went off to college at a large public state school on the central coast of California, having been raised with certain tenets of Judaism and a fairly strong sense of Jewish identity.

And interestingly, in high high school my best friend was Catholic and I even remember going to mass with her but I never actually like heard the gospel. I never knew really who the person of Jesus was until I went off to college at this large

public state school. And it's a crazy story. I mean it just sort of so happens that all of my friends and roommates were Christians.

It was a really interesting time at Cal Poly, which is the university that I was at,

and God was on the move, like just as one example of that the campus crusade chapter which is now called crew

went from about 30 people to 500 people in a five year period and that's when I was there. So something was going on and I sort of became

swept up in it to be honest. My roommate, my like randomly assigned freshman dorm roommate was a Christian. My next door neighbor in the

dorm was a Christian, both of whom became very close friends of mine throughout

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