confused about the feasts

[etherea]

Hi everybody,

I haven't posted anything for a long time, but I like to come and read often. I was really happy to see this new forum, because these are things I have questions about.



The topic about the celebrating the feasts has confused me a little, but I didn't want to mess that discussion up since I think what I have to ask kind of goes in a different direction.



It seems to me that a Christian should celebrate the feasts in the Bible, because God said so, but I 'm confused about how to celebrate them. I mean, do Christians celebrate them in the same way and at the same time as the Jewish people? Or can they be celebrated in a different way or time?



Should they be celebrated along with the Christian Feasts, or instead of Easter and Pentecost, for instance? Is Good Friday the same thing as the Day of Atonement? Or maybe should some parts of the bible feasts be integrated in the church holidays? Maybe Christians should point out the fulfilled prophecies when they celebrate them, or something like that. I'm just not clear on how this all should work. I want to do what's right and honors God, I just don't know how to go about it. Is it something I could do just in my own family?



There isn't anyone around me or in my church that is interested in Jewish things, so there isn't anyone for me to ask. I've brought up the subject with my pastor on occasion, but he doesn't seem to have any more clue about things than I do.