Fires and Calling, Communication and Communion
The way what we speak and comoonicate say a lot about us dunt uht? From the southern drawl of the United States to the rounded vowel sounds of Yorkshire, you don’t need me to tell you that we all communicate in very different ways. Today is Pentecost , a high feast day of the church year. When the Holy Spirit was given to the disciples. It’s the birth of the church! Pentecost is about Communication, God’s communication with us, and God’s anointing of all of us to do His work in the world. I trust and believe that God has given us what we need within this congregation, not just to grow numerically, but spiritually and in our love for one another. I don’t buy into this language of poverty we use about ourselves sometimes. Have you noticed that the only time the word ‘dwindling’ is used, either in the media or elsewhere is about churches? Oh we’re all so old, oh we’re so small and we can’t do it, we’ve not got the resources to do this or that. We may not be Soul Church (good as it is),