Lambeth Palace releases short film ‘The Spirit of Pentecost’
[Lambeth Palace] Two days before the Feast of Pentecost, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said the Holy Spirit “gives us a love for the world around us, and the capacity to both speak and act in a way that is revolutionary”.
In a short film (available here) produced by Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Justin adds that the Holy Spirit “draws Christians from very different background and tradition together, in a body that loves one another”.
Alongside the Archbishop, the film features Joel Edwards, International Director of Micah Challenge; the Ven. Jan McFarlane, Archdeacon of Norwich; and Holy Trinity Brompton’s Hayley Bisosfky, who works with women who have been victims of sex trafficking.
The day of Pentecost, which falls 50 days after Easter Sunday and 10 days after Ascension Day, celebrates the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the apostles – an event often considered to have been the birth of the Church. At the moment of Pentecost, God pours out his Spirit on men and women, young and old, slave and free.
In the film, Joel Edwards says the Christian community created at Pentecost is one in which “everybody counts and everybody has a purpose, and there is nobody marginalised, nobody excluded”.
He adds that Pentecost is not just about celebrating “God’s birth in the Church”, but about remembering the unifying, empowering effects of his Spirit. Pentecost “thrusts us out into the world to deal with differences, to embrace diversity in common purpose,” he says.
The Ven. Jan McFarlane says: “I see the Holy Spirit at work today when I see men, and women, and children growing in confidence in their faith and reaching the point where their faith means so much to them that they just simply live it out,” she says, adding that most of the social action in Norwich “happens through the churches”.
At the end of the film, Archbishop Justin calls for “a renewal of prayer and love for one another in the Church, because then people will see who Jesus is just in our lives”.
He concludes: “For me, the message is constantly coming back and saying, ‘Fill me with your Holy Spirit,’ asking God that we might receive the Holy Spirit individually and in the whole Church. Then we might see the work of the Spirit in the world around us, and cooperate with that work.”
Watch the film here: http://bit.ly/12GH1dq
Tell us what the spirit of #Pentecost means to you at @LambethPalace
In a short film (available here) produced by Lambeth Palace, Archbishop Justin adds that the Holy Spirit “draws Christians from very different background and tradition together, in a body that loves one another”.
Alongside the Archbishop, the film features Joel Edwards, International Director of Micah Challenge; the Ven. Jan McFarlane, Archdeacon of Norwich; and Holy Trinity Brompton’s Hayley Bisosfky, who works with women who have been victims of sex trafficking.
The day of Pentecost, which falls 50 days after Easter Sunday and 10 days after Ascension Day, celebrates the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the apostles – an event often considered to have been the birth of the Church. At the moment of Pentecost, God pours out his Spirit on men and women, young and old, slave and free.
In the film, Joel Edwards says the Christian community created at Pentecost is one in which “everybody counts and everybody has a purpose, and there is nobody marginalised, nobody excluded”.
He adds that Pentecost is not just about celebrating “God’s birth in the Church”, but about remembering the unifying, empowering effects of his Spirit. Pentecost “thrusts us out into the world to deal with differences, to embrace diversity in common purpose,” he says.
The Ven. Jan McFarlane says: “I see the Holy Spirit at work today when I see men, and women, and children growing in confidence in their faith and reaching the point where their faith means so much to them that they just simply live it out,” she says, adding that most of the social action in Norwich “happens through the churches”.
At the end of the film, Archbishop Justin calls for “a renewal of prayer and love for one another in the Church, because then people will see who Jesus is just in our lives”.
He concludes: “For me, the message is constantly coming back and saying, ‘Fill me with your Holy Spirit,’ asking God that we might receive the Holy Spirit individually and in the whole Church. Then we might see the work of the Spirit in the world around us, and cooperate with that work.”
Watch the film here: http://bit.ly/12GH1dq
Tell us what the spirit of #Pentecost means to you at @LambethPalace
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