Celebrating Pentecost

Pentecost - the coming of the Spirit - a holy day, not commercialized or even much mentioned, and yet one of the holiest days of the Christian year.

". . .when God puts his Spirit in us, then. . .God in you and me understands God speaking to you and me. That's why the Christian has this passionate concern about the family of Christ. . . .Because we do not understand any kind of revelation in Christian terms that isn't given in community. The revelation was not first given and afterward a community created to proclaim it. Rather the creation of the community was itself the revelation of the activity of God. . . .As members of the church of Christ we don't come together in order to like each other."
We come together because we are God's witnesses to the truth. "For the Christian truth is a person and that person is Jesus Christ. . . .Therefore when we go out to be witnesses, three things are required of us. First, conviction, then courage, and then a life that is agreeable to what we say we believe."
May the Spirit be in you and in me, and on this holy day of Pentecost may we find community.

[Quotations from Seasons of the Heart by Edward N. West, pgs 154, 155, 156.]

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