On Sunday, May 22 Senior Pastor Craig Bailey continued with his exploration of Pentecost and the purpose behind the Lord’s gift of the Holy Spirit. He opened the sermon with a question: If the whole world is going down anyway, why should we bother protecting it or changing it? A 180-shift in a thought pattern such as this is necessary to reveal the meaning of Pentecost. We must understand that God is, at His core, a God of restoration. Because He created the world and saw that it was good, we too should see His creation as beautiful and worthy of preservation through His redemption. This logic begs the question of how we should function in this world and react to those living in it. Should we write anyone off as unredeemable? How should we respond when we see the Holy Spirit at work? What should our own redeemed lives—as Christians—look like on a practical level?
