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Pentecost 2011

Today we celebrate the day when God breathed life into his people and his Church through the Holy Spirit and we’re invited to go back to those early days – days when the early followers must have wondered minute by minute what God had in store for them. These were the followers who had lived through the crucifixion, the resurrection and the ascension and now saw God’s power literally transforming their lives – on the day of Pentecost they were given the ability to speak and understand different languages, they were given the courage to go and speak about the incredible things that were happening to them, and they must have been transformed by the joy of knowing that, whilst Jesus had ascended into heaven, God was right there amongst them. And God was there with them in a way that demanded their attention and commitment – they had no structures to get in the way, they had no rules, not even ideas about how the Church would grow… And yet it was to be a Church that would grow and grow… An