Sermon Intro

"I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power."

— Samuel Chadwick

Pentecost Sunday is May 23 this year, and Chadwick's quote begins an exciting, engaging, enabling and empowering week of reimagining and perhaps repurposing what, exactly, Church is. What was can help us fire up what is. You in?