Follow Along with the Message

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Worship at SPC, May 31, 2020

1. Why do you think God waited until Pentecost to give the gift of the Holy Spirit?

    

2. When the Holy Spirit filled the disciples, he gave them the ability to speak on other languages rather than allowing the masses to speak God’s language. Why is that significant? What does that say about God’s willingness to come to us, in our vernacular?

    

3. Dr. Willie James Jennings says, “God speaks people, fluently.” What can we do to speak fluently to our neighbors? People different than us? Different generations?

    

4. Some people scoffed at what they heard, saying that what the people were saying was proof they were drunk. Why don’t you think they could hear and understand what the disciples were saying? What was standing in their way?

    

5. Justo Gonzales warns that one of the things standing in the way for us to hear the Spirit of God is the belief that we possess the truth. “We claim the Holy Spirit as our own possession. We demand that the Spirit be always manifested in a particular way that we have determined.” How do you see Christians attempting to “control the narrative” today? What can we do to change that?

    

6. We need translators, people who will allow their lives to be translated, not just once, but again and again as the Spirit speaks,” writes Dr. Willie James Jennings. What are some ways we can let our lives be translations of the Good News for a hungry world this week?