God’s Pentecost People - 2008

We are the people of God, specifically chosen and called by Him to bring His love to the people of our community and the world.  Each weekend this month is a special celebration marking some aspect of what it is to be Pentecost people. 

§         May 10-11:  The festival of the Pentecost

§         May 18:        The big tent service as an inter-ethnic celebration

§         May 24-25:  The Memorial Day weekend services

 

May 10-11, 2008

God’s Pentecost People ~ Empowered and Spirited

Numbers 11:24-30; Acts 2:1-21; John 7:37-39 

Ten days after Jesus had ascended into heaven, and 50 days after His Resurrection, He kept His promise and sent His Spirit.  The Holy Spirit has long been known as the most mysterious and unknown of the Holy Trinity.  So powerful, that even the Church fears letting control in the hands of the Holy Spirit, for who knows what would happen.  Shall we allow Him to fill us, empower us, and spirit us?  Come, Holy Spirit, Come!

On this Mother’s Day weekend, we also give thanks that God used our mothers to bring us into this world.  So many of us can give thanks that we have received the nurture and care of our Father in heaven through His specially chosen agent:  our mothers.

 

May 18, 2008 (at 11 AM in the North Parking Lot Under the Tent)

God’s Pentecost People ~ United as Brothers and Sisters in Christ

Acts 2:1-21; Revelation 7:9-10; John 17:11 

Today, we gather as people united by the blood of Jesus Christ.  We may have different colors of skin, different ways of worshiping, different languages with which we offer praise, but we are united in Christ.  We have this special opportunity to get a glimpse of heaven as we gather around the throne of the Lamb to sing His praise.  While people of different skin colors and languages fight and war against one another, it is the blood of Jesus Christ that unites us.  Pentecost people stand out as wonderfully, peculiar people. 

This weekend there will not be a Saturday night service or 8:15 service Sunday but we will all gather together in our back parking lot (rain or shine) under the big tent with our Jesus First Korean Church, Grace Ethiopian Church, and our newest church, South Asian Church of Christ. 

There is also a great feast together on Saturday night.  Watch for more details in the Communicator.

 

May 24-25, 2008

God’s Pentecost People ~ Remembered and Sent

Isaiah 49:8-16a; Romans 1:8-17; Matthew 6:24-34 

Like a loving parent, our Father in heaven reminds us that no matter where we are sent, he will always remember us, for we are engraved in the palms of His hands.

That promise is especially precious to us as we remember the scars that mark the physical hands of our Lord Jesus.  Now, as Pentecost people, we are called and sent into the world as people of promise.

On this Memorial Day weekend we also remember the sacrifice of men and women who, in the name of the United States of America, willingly gave their lives that we could enjoy the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution.