The Day of Pentecost

The reason we celebrate Pentecost and must recognize it is because the whole Christian understanding of human history and about what God has in mind for humanity … it all depends on this day. It changed the course of Western Civilization … made Christianity more than a Jewish sect… but instead a way of seeing the world that now claims over 2 billion adherents. It’s the third great act of God after Creation and Incarnation… the POURING OUT of the very heart of God, the Spirit of God on all nationalities, Jews and Gentiles alike.
Today, I want to think of this moment as a kind of crisis moment for the whole world… this is the beginning of the end – the Last Days begin with this event (v.17) And I want to use this CRISIS moment to help us think about crisis moments in all of our lives. Again, this was a one-time, universal crisis, a turning point…and I don’t want to detract from it but what happens when we fail to capitalize on the really big moments God brings into our lives AND what DOES it mean to
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respond in a redemptive way when there’s a huge change that comes our way. I’ve said it many times before, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste”…So today, we think about how NOT to waste a crisis.
A simple outline: 1) Crisis 2) Conclusion and 3) Consequence.