Coming to Your Own Birthday Party?

The Day of Pentecost is the fiftieth and last day of the Easter Season,

when the Church received the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2).

—page 403 in The United Methodist Book of Worship

Jesus is the host at your birthday party.

He promised, “I will send the Holy Spirit, just as my Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven.” (Luke 24:29, NIV)

Acts 2 has details of what happened fifty days after The Resurrection on that Day of Pentecost.

Pentecost is often called The Birthday of The Church.

What could be a better birthday gift that “power from heaven,” and what better reason to gather with other followers of Jesus to celebrate?

You are coming to your own birthday party, right?

As I end my church newsletter columns: See you in worship if not before!