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Date: 15 May 2005 09:51:39
Pentecost Grid has got me back to Acts 2 to go through what it was all about. Here is my interpretation.
The city was crowded, people everywhere and you couldn't even understand half of them. I know it's a religious thing and all that, but it was really good for business. It was also a chance to celebrate our identity, the first main religious festival since Passover - and well in Jerusalem, in the grip of Pax Romana that had been a tad strange this year.
Anyway I know from my friend, who has been shaken and trying to making sense of it all since Passover, that her and her friends were all going to meet up to share the Feast of Pentecost together. Well there's is a different kind of Jewishness, if you get what I mean. That guy Jesus, the one they got rid of at Passover -although I still don't understand why, seemed to have got into their heads and now they're really into religion, but well it's not the "nice, polite" religion that you and I do.
What was that? It sounds like, well I don't know what. I don't know what's going on with the weather, it went really strange over Passover as well, 3 hours of darkness. Mind you it seems to becoming from the building over their, that's the one my friends lot meet in. Well I'm off to see it, not going to miss this one.
What the ****? I know this lot they're mostly a bunch of Galileans, I mean fisherman and stuff. They can hardly speak our own language coherently and now they're talking in the languages the tourists are speaking. I don't get this, I don't think they're drunk. I mean I wouldn't put it past their sort, but well, it's early - even for them and well from what my friend said this lot were ok, sorted.
Hang on, I know that guy, it's Peter. He's the one my friend seems to get on with. Oh, so they're not drunk - well so what is going on? Prophecy, Joel, us deliberately killing that Jesus bloke, God bringing him back from wherever, raised up - I don't get all of this he's going on about. I mean I know the scriptures and I know what they say happened to that Jesus bloke, but well let's be sensible about all this, but well something's going on. This is starting to mess with my head abit.
Now this Peter bloke is telling us to change our lives, turn to God, be baptised, have our sins forgiven. Now come on who does he think he is? But I don't know, something has got to change and there has been too much wierd stuff going on around here. Hang on what's this, he's telling us to get out of this sick and stupid culture. Well I don't know, just trying to get more and more money to spend on stuff I don't need, but which looks nice in the market is getting well a bit, you know, boring. And well, the amount I'm drinking isn't helping anything or anybody and well my friend seems to be sorting her head out abit - even if she is spending too much time with this lot.
There she is, my friend, she's coming over - mentioning something about wind and a Spirit. I stop her and just blurt it out - she knows I don't do religion, I mean I do the synagouge and stuff, but that's just to fit in. Look I don't know what I want and I don't do signing up to things, but I know that I want to get out of the rat race, so I'm off now to get baptized and stuff, chill with them and do their stuff a bit and find out more about it all. It's mad - there's about 3,000 of us today. Mind you if there's so many of us "normal " types involved it's going to be ok. They're going to have to get used to us being us and well if God can do that with them, well I'll have to wait and see what he does with me. Seems to me like this Spirit thing might just be what we were all waiting for.