Pentecost Sunday
10:30 AM • ZOOM Meeting
Study Leader: Mark Biddle
Scripture: Acts 2:1-21
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Meeting ID: 834 854 376
In this time of social distancing, we stay connected to one another by gathering virtually in worship to join our voices together in prayer, to fellowship and share with one another, and to explore scripture in an interactive format. Contact Sheryl or the church office if you need help getting ZOOM onto your device.
Artwork: Choirstall woodcarving of the Pentecost, with tongues of fire descending upon the apostles, Cathédrale d’Amiens (1508-1519).
“The divine self-disclosure at Pentecost was a dramatic theophany, accompanied by the sound of wind and tongues of fire. Pentecost was an event that not only harkened back to the dramatic events of the giving of the law at Sinai and the presence of God for the prophets, but also centred in God’s self-disclosure in the Incarnation, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Pentecost theophany not only inaugurates the kingdom, but also looks forward to the final theophany of God in the parousia, when the Lord comes in judgement with signs of blood, fire and smoke (Acts 2:19-20). Tongues, like the kairos event of the Pentecost theophany, is a vehicle of divine self-disclosure that transforms language and hints at the future transformation of the world.” (Peter Althouse, Spirit of the Last Days)
Digital Image from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. [retrieved May 11, 2020]
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