Dear St. Lukers,
Well, here we are 50 days after Easter, the close of Eastertide - and what a ride it’s been! Over the last five weeks the sermon series Renovate has called us to rethink and rebuild the way we love, hope, believe, confirm, restore, and persevere as a resurrection people. And now my friends, it’s time that we either fish or cut bait as the saying goes, because this Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. It is THE moment where we, as laity (not talking to the clergy here but to us lay folk) are reminded that we are fully empowered by the Holy Spirit to pick up where Jesus’ earthly ministry left off.
We, as Christ followers, tend to focus on Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection – and rightly so. But we tend to gloss over one of the most powerful and beautiful gifts God gives to each of us in the form of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost may well be the most underrated and unappreciated of holy days, yet it is one of the most important to our faith story. And by the way, in our Methodist understanding, there is no subordination or rank order to the Trinity (God in three persons – God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit). One of the great mysteries of our faith is...
