Don’t Forget To Wear Red!
PENTECOST SUNDAY
June 12, 2011
Pentecost is the birthday of the Church…not just for our congregation, but for THE CHURCH, the body of Christ around the world. The story of the first Pentecost is in (Acts 1, 2) when the disciples of Jesus were gathered in the Upper Room in Jerusalem waiting as he had instructed them. They did not know exactly what was going to happen but they knew that they were going to receive the promise of the Father. After Easter and Christmas, Pentecost is the next most important day to the Christian calendar. At Pentecost, the story of God in Jesus Christ became internalized and personal; God in Christ became incarnate in ordinary people. Wind blew and tongues of fire danced to transform and fill those very human and ordinary believers with the divine Spirit, thus giving birth to the Church. The faithful continue to receive this promised gift of God-dwelling-within to provide faith, hope, courage, comfort, direction, and peace.
From Pentecost on, the good news of the Gospel was not held only by a select few who had been with Jesus during his earthly days. Now believers everywhere could experience the saving and healing presence of Jesus Christ. From that day to the present, those who turn in their ways to His Way and are baptized, receive the promise of the Holy Spirit, God with us always and in every circumstance of life (Acts 2:38). Let us celebrate Pentecost by wearing red, the symbolic color for the Holy Spirit to church on June 12th!
Share this post:
