What do we mean by ‘A Christian seder'? Seder is a Jewish word meaning ‘order', and it refers to the general pattern followed during a Passover meal, used for centuries by Jews across the world. There is no set wording for the meal; on the contrary, innovation and creativity have always been encouraged, but the general order stays the same, unchanging elements providing the key ingredients to the proceedings.
Today we are not going to follow the format of a complete Passover meal from start to finish. Partly because without Jews to host our meal, we could not consider this a real traditional seder. But also because within a traditional seder there are so many elements that it is worth our focusing separately on different aspects, building upon them in the context of our Christianity and applying them, in particular, to the Lord's Supper. So tonight we will be focusing on the Dayeinu response: a Hebrew word meaning ‘It would have been enough'.