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| Summary: Differences in language can frustrate and confuse people and lead to conflict, a reality that the Bible speaks about in the story of the Tower of Babel. The story of Pentecost reverses this confusion of tongues, as the Holy Spirit enables the apostles to speak in languages that members of the crowd understand. This is a sign of the creation of true community centered in Jesus Christ. Because the gospel can be proclaimed in all languages, this community can be sustained and can grow. |
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| Summary: Pentecost shows us that the Holy Spirit is uniquely active in the Christian community. |
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| Summary: The risen Christ didn’t speak and act like someone who had been betrayed and murdered. He was the same Jesus who had proclaimed and shown the love of God in his ministry, and came with words about peace and forgiveness. The fact that he has been raised means that love, peace and forgiveness are the ultimate future of the world. The gift of the Holy Spirit to the church empowers it to carry on the mission in the world. |
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| Summary: God has given the Spirit to every believer as a gift to empower all believers equally to participate in the life and ministry of the church. |
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| Summary: God’s gifts always and forever have strings attached. Yet, they’re not the sort of strings that can be used to yank the gift back again. Rather, they connect us to one another, in community — and to God. |
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| Summary: Our Christian celebration of Pentecost — remembering the Holy Spirit and the infant church — turns a harvest of death, the old way of living, into a harvest of life, an alternative way to live and love. |
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| Summary: Christ gives his disciples the Spirit on the first Easter evening, but the story of the Spirit in the world goes back to creation. The Spirit was active among God’s people before Christ’s coming, and accompanied and empowered Christ in his ministry. Arisen, Christ gives the Spirit to the church, with authority to reprove sin and call sinners to faith in his saving work.
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