PENTECOST SUNDAY

May my words and my thoughts be acceptable to you, O Lord, my refuge and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

SEASON: PENTECOST SUNDAY
PROPER: B
PLACE: St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingsville
DATE: JUNE 8, 2003


TEXT: Acts 2:1-11 – The Pentecostal Event

ISSUE: The wind and fire empowering the apostles.
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This sermon was the telling of the Act’s Pentecost Story. A large fan was used with a rotating windmill flower, and a person appointed to lift and turn the fan around for the congregation to feel the wind. Red feathers were used and distributed to the congregation for tongues of fire from above. Confetti at one point is tossed into the fan to show how the dust and debris may have blown about the wind where the disciples were. A picture showing the faces of all the congregation in the body of Christ was a display of how the empowering Spirit has kept the church going to this very day.
The sermon concluded with words from Joel: “The Spirit of God will come upon all people, men and women, and even men and women servants. Young men will have visions and old men will dream dreams.
All of this may not exactly have happened the way it is dramatized, but we just know it is true, because we are all gathered here today as the body of Christ with treasures and talents to bring hope and love to the world..