"And How Is It That We Hear...?"
Pentecost Sunday
May 24, 2015
This week we're taking a look at the Pentecost story in the Book of Acts. (You can read it here.) It's a dramatic narrative about the Holy Spirit falling on a gathering of the earliest Christians. Filled with the Spirit, they went into the streets of Jerusalem praising God in languages that were foreign to them. Thousands of pilgrims from every country who were in the city to observe the Jewish festival of Pentecost were astonished when they heard the sound of their own native tongue being spoken. The Spirit's Pentecost miracle enabled very diverse people to hear and be heard. The walls of language that separated and divided were dismantled, making genuine communication possible.
Are we Christians utilizing that particular gift nowadays? In our contentious contemporary culture, could we be doing a better job of communicating with those who speak a different language, figuratively speaking? How can we begin to practice communicating in ways that transcend barriers and lead to reconciliation?
Join us as we celebrate Pentecost and look to the Spirit to empower us once again with the gift of genuine communication.
See you on Sunday!
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