Sunday was Pentecost Sunday. That is the day that the church remembers the coming of the Holy Spirit to fill the disciples waiting in the upper room. It was the transforming moment that brought the true church into existence.
That was Sunday. What about today? Part of what our pastor has been teaching is that the filling of the Holy Spirit is not only a beginning but a continuation. Yesterday my wife asked me what “progressive sanctification” was. She was reading a book that mentioned a whole bunch of people from a theological tradition that is more into irresistible grace than resistible sanctification. I told her it was the process of maturing that all Christians agree exists.
Progressive sanctification is the growth process that takes place after the filling of the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit, it isn’t going to happen. Two things the pastor shared that I thought were important to remember. You can’t understand the Bible if you don’t have the Spirit and the Holy Spirit can’t help you remember what you never knew. To that I would add, you will not hear if you are not listening.
Pentecost Sunday is over for this year. The process of Pentecost continues. Listen, read, obey. Let’s each transform our little corner of the world.
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