"Marcia, Jesus was a Jew; he came for the Jewish people. He came for you."

Those words were spoken to my mother by my friend's mother when I was nine years old, and while they made a distinct impression on me, it wasn't until sixteen years later that I considered them in a personal way.

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My parents, who are originally from Detroit, Michigan, found the Messiah through the "Jesus Movement" in the early seventy's. When I was around twelve, we began going to a Messianic congregation to learn more about our Jewish roots. About a year later, I carried on an old family tradition by having a bar mitzvah. My Haftorah portion was Isaiah 1:18, "though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." It was only years later that the true meaning of these words changed my life.

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