John 6:63: “The Spirit is the one who gives life! Human strength can do nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are from that life-giving Spirit.”
I often link this understanding of the Spirit as Life-giver with Matthew 23:37, “Love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind.” Or as it says in The Message translation; “Love God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.”
This is a call to experience and express our Christian faith not only in our heads and on Sunday, but in our hands and our weeks. The Spirit of God is a Life-giver in all of our life.
Hence Pentecost 2006.
A week of prayer from Monday May 29 to Thursday June 1.
A Saturday of Bible teaching morning and afternoon, along with a chance to express that teaching in words (storytelling), in deed (tile making or kite flying), in life (prayers and rituals for new babies).
Peter and Joyce Majendie have funding from the Wayne Wright Scholarship to create a Pentecost art installation and run a whole day Saturday seminar about the process of creating art installations. We have had enquiries already from Tauranga and Dunedin.
A Friday evening of Trivia, late night movie and Saturday evening of live music and storytelling.
Input will come from Steve Taylor and Simon Brown (author, storyteller and Baptist church planter).
It is going to be a great weekend, a chance to love God in so many different ways. Publicity is here.