Pentecost
What our pastors have said about pentecost, drawn from messages preached across our campuses.
In their own words
“Pentecost and gospel proclamation, which are kind of big words. What is Pentecost? When people are like, oh, Pentecost. What are they talking about? Blue shirt. Landed. Yes. Exactly. They're talking about when the Holy Spirit came and came to live in man, came upon the disciples. Good job. That's the day of Pentecost. Gospel proclamation.”
Avery Spurlock · Biblical Timeline (Middle School)“Pretty significant, right? We see that through the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Then we move on to Pentecost and Gospel Proclamation. So Pentecost meaning what? We talked about this last week. Who can tell me when we say Pentecost like this what we're talking about? How about somebody I haven't heard from yet? Say that again, Kirsten? That's a good guess. That's not quite it. All right, Avaeh, what do you think?”
Avery Spurlock · Parent Night (Middle School)“And that was that according to Acts chapter 2, the church was born at Pentecost. The church was born at Pentecost. It was on a day, a time, a place when Peter stood up and preached the gospel and every person heard in their own language. Yes, Pentecost is about tongues, but not about unknowable sort of utterances. It was that every person in their own language and dialect heard the truth of the gospel.”
David H. McKinley · The Demands of a Growing Church“clutch and then we've got the burning bush and then we have all of these things that point to jesus being the light of the world and then we have the holy spirit which we know the feast is pentecost and we know what happens at pentecost so um but so we're going to look at john 14 15-17 and this is jesus talking about the holy spirit so we're just kind of leading up to um pentecost which happens which”
· Steps to the Cross Lesson 4“on the power the power of the Holy Spirit to come. And guess what girls? Theologians think that the upper room was right around the temple and it's during a feast, a festival of Pentecost. And they're there and all of a sudden remember how he dedicated that first temple. Fire fell and he indwelt to the temple. On the day of Pentecost, tongues of fire”
· Women's Summer Bible Study on Haggai - Intro Week Teaching“But Titus is written to a man named Titus from a guy named Paul. The apostle Paul who wrote most of the books of the New Testament is writing to Titus. And a little bit of a context, I'll put up a map here on the screen, or I won't. Somebody else will put up a map here on the screen. Thank you guys, serving in the back, putting up the maps. So Titus is on this island in the Mediterranean Sea called Crete. The gospel first got to Crete at the day of Pentecost. So the day of Pentecost, there were people from Crete who traveled to the city of Jerusalem”
Austin Anderson · Warren Students - September 3rd“I don't even really like to call him a force because he's a person, but he is the animating power from above. It's why in Acts 1.8, Jesus's last words to his disciples and apostles were, and you will receive power, that same power, that dynamis, that word. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, he's talking about Pentecost, and you will be my witnesses in this kind of movement of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, and ultimately to the ends of the earth. And what happens at Pentecost is the power of God by the Spirit of God is unleashed on the people of God. And it starts”
Stephen Newman · Are You Hungry?“It's why after Pentecost comes or before Pentecost comes, he tells his disciples, and you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. This wasn't even a New Testament thing. This was an Old Testament thing too. He comes to Abram, who he's going to call Abraham in Genesis chapter 12. And he tells him, hey, I'm going to form a nation. Your generations and”
Stephen Newman · The Fugitive Prophet