August 31, 2025: Acts 2:1-13 - Hannah Thom

This is the undoing of the Tower of Babel… if the story of babel is that of an ancient people invoking a ziggurat (a temple used to bring the gods to earth to serve man)…this story is God coming to man to prepare him for the service of God. The power the disciples had asked for in Acts 1--will instead be the power given by the Spirit in Acts 2, not the political power and prestige they wanted, but a subversive power that calls for the service of all. A power that empowers the powerless. This will be not an elevation of Israel a division like the tower of babel, but a bringing together of a diverse group of people to be the People of God--this is not eradicating Israel but fulfilling the call the be a blessing to all peoples.

What does Pentecost teach us about the nature of the church as the Spirit of God is poured out on all of God’s people? What does this pouring out of the Spirit mean for us as the body today?

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