Pentecost Sunday – Sunday, 23rd May 2021

How do you communicate to young people the transforming power of the Holy Spirit?  I often used to take a plastic bottle of washing up liquid and a small plastic stick with a circular hole in it (children’s party bubbles).  The young people would dip the stick in the liquid and blow through the circular hole to produce many bubbles.  The question then was what had transformed this greasy, slimy liquid in the bottle into those beautiful spheroids, which, in sunlight, would refract all the colours of the rainbow?  The answer is a puff of breath.  The Old Testament word for Spirit is the same as ‘breath’.  The Holy Spirit is the breath (or wind) of God which brings about change.  Specifically, He changes the ordinary into something beautiful.  This gives us an insight into the work of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit, who came in a special way to the believers on the day of Pentecost, is in the business of changing things for the better.  He is also in the business of perfecting us into being fully the people God intended us to be.