Daily 7A The Movement Launch Meeting Launch Code
5 minutes to light the fuse
Hear from God
Remember who we are
Receive blessing
Go change the world
Ron and Nick continue a discussion about the coming of the Holy Spirit and being in a community.
notes:
Acts 2:4
Identity
From here on out in the story whenever we see a person who received the Spirit, we see the potential that Jesus is in them and with them. These are now the acts of the Holy Spirit and it is his identity we look for in what the people do. These are not people trying to know God, they are people filled with God line Jesus was filled with God. They know who he is and they know who they are. They have the internal witness of the Spirit of Jesus.
All of Them
The Holy Spirit makes no distinctions. All who waited for Him to come met him. Young and old men and women. This must have been both a shock and a delight. Social justice is a good thing maybe even a great thing but true equality and fair treatment is a myth outside this singular experience. This is the only place in history where the entire playing field is leveled completely and every single person receives the gift. Every person elevated to God-friend status. This is the only social equality that the church guarantees and it trumps any other. Making races equal or genders equal to each other before each other is meaningless. God giving every person equal access to the Holy Spirit and therefore equal before Him is actual equality. This is why the church must not become an entity which majors on economic, gender, or any other form of liberation theology because these are less than perfect and never to be obtained equalities while gospel equality IS liberation theology that is obtainable now and forever.
