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The Spirit Unscripted

Published: July 3, 2019, 6 p.m.

This Sunday, the Day of Pentecost, we will continue our sermon series, Acts: Stories, Scenes, & Spirit.
The text we will explore together is Acts 2:1-13, in which the Holy Spirit makes a fiery whirlwind appearance on stage. The Spirit's presence is an unexpected, interrupting, and intimate force. It comes over and enters into the men and women disciples, resting in their mouths and touching their tongue's. The Spirit shatters any expectations of nativism or privatism to give birth to a new community conceived in difference: different language, different nations, different people. 

With the Holy Spirit inclusion would no longer require assimilation, but new languages would be learned.  With the Holy Spirit, the disciples could no longer stay within the four walls of their church, but the walls protecting comfortability and privilege were being blown down.