2019-06-09 Thoughts

Speaking in Tounges...

The people doing this are Galileans… (They aren’t educated, aren’t foreign, aren’t from a border bilingual town…)

This is taking place in Jerusalem...

This enabled those who were there to speak, share and understand in a deeper way

This enable those who were there to speak to those in their city… That very day… In a way they would understand...

The power of hearing people speak in their own native tongue

From what we see, even Jesus only spoke aramaic...

Translating between languages is difficult because not every culture shares the same symbols, concepts and ideas help us to understand what our words describe...

Fundamental shift in what happened here....

The disciples weren’t all able to understand some new heavenly language that would form basis for this new church (Everyone didn’t just learn latin)

Link to the old testament verse...

It can be easy to look at this passage and talk about going to “all the world”, but the fact of the matter is that, in a multicultural place like Australia, all the world has already come here... And we still strugle to engage authentically with those who speak english… today… within 500m of this building...

Application

Why don’t we use the King James Bible (Or: Why don’t we just use the hebrew and greek texts)

Why don’t we just stick to the same songs I know (Or: Why don’t we just sing psalms only, nothing else)

For our song service, the songs that you pick don’t need to be in english...

Logos

The Lectionary Commentary, Volume 1: The Old Testament and Acts (The First Readings) Day of Pentecost, Years A, B, C (Craig S. Keener)

On Pentecost we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit to empower the church in ways not previously available for the whole people of God. Often God’s people do not consider the immensity of the power God has provided for the task: our lives can betray spiritual mediocrity only when we underestimate the reality of the third person of the Trinity living and working in us.

The Lectionary Commentary, Volume 1: The Old Testament and Acts (The First Readings) Day of Pentecost, Years A, B, C (Craig S. Keener)

The Gospel of Luke moves from the temple to Galilee and back to Jerusalem, but Acts will move from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth (1:8).

The Lectionary Commentary, Volume 1: The Old Testament and Acts (The First Readings) Day of Pentecost, Years A, B, C (Craig S. Keener)

After recounting the proofs of Pentecost, Acts focuses on the peoples of Pentecost: Jewish people from many nations serve as the first representatives of the gospel crossing all cultural barriers (2:5–11).