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Pentecost 2009
People gathering in
Fore St outside the Methodist church on Sunday 31 st May were
welcomed to join in the official birthday of the Christian Church,
formed nearly 2000 years ago at Pentecost. |
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| Christian ministers in the town led
the service offering an understanding of how Pentecost saw the
releasing of God's Power on the earth through the coming of the
Holy Spirit, This took place after Jesus had risen from the dead
spent time with his disciples and then told them he had to return
to his Father, so that the Holy Spirit could come and be with
them. Pastor Paul Black said, Jesus told them ‘he could only be
in one place but the Holy Spirit could be with everyone everywhere.'
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Singing
‘In Christ Alone', ‘How Great is our God ‘and ‘There is a Redeemer'
in the strong sunlight the strength of the voices reflected
nature of this important celebration of the church and a taste
of the first Pentecost was reconstructed by several people coming
forth to speak Psalm 9 v1-2 in a variety of languages.
The Reading Acts 2 explained
how on the day of Pentecost, seven weeks after Jesus' resurrection
the believers were meeting together in one place. Suddenly there
was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm
in the skies above them and it filled the house where they were
meeting. Then what looked like flames of tongues of fire appeared
and settled on each one of them. And everyone present was filled
with the Holy Spirit and began talking in other languages. |
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Godly Jews from many nations were living in Jerusalem at that
time. When they heard the sound they came to see what it was all
about and they were bewildered to hear their own languages spoken
by the believers. “How can this be?” they said. “These people
are from Galilee and yet we hear them speaking in languages of
the lands they were born in! |
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first crowd in Jerusalem heard God's achievements being praised
in many of their own languages and were convinced that something
very special was happening, and as a result came to believe
in Jesus. Fore St also heard many languages individually spoken
including Zambian, French, Spanish, German, Hebrew and Greek
then simultaneously praising and thanking God.
Before the service
could conclude a paramedic ambulance appeared to take an elderly
lady out of Somerfield's, but the space was easily cleared and
singing continued with Love divine all loves excelling accompanying
the leaving vehicle and prayers bringing the meeting to a close.
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