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AT YOUR SERVICE - 31 MAY 2020
At Your Service
Sunday, 31 May 2020 - 30 minutes
Today is PENTECOST SUNDAY - often called the Birthday of the Church.
It's the day we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles.
When Jesus went back to Heaven, he promised his closest friends that He would not desert them - that God the Father would send a 'helper'
On the first Feast of Pentecost, the power of the Holy Spirit came down on the Apostles in the form of a rushing wind and tongues of fire - transforming them from fearful men to fearless missionaries - ready to take Jesus' message to the ends of the earth - and so, the church of Jesus Christ on earth was born!
On AT YOUR SERVICE today we reflect on what it will cost us to follow the prompting of the Holy Spirit in our lives - because the gift of the Holy Spirit is ours today, just as it was given to the first disciples two thousand years ago.
David Suchet reads the account of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the disciples, as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, and Reverend Alex Brown imagines how it must have felt to be there on that first Pentecost Sunday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, explains what he thinks the Pentecost message is for us, today, and two Methodist ministers - Reverend David Shirtliff and Reverend Steve Ingrouille - reflect on where the power of the Holy Spirit has led them.
There's music too - including a powerful hymn to the Holy Spirit by Rob Patterson, and a version of 'Brother, Sister, let me serve you' recorded remotely by staff and pupils, past and present, from King Williams College, and mixed by their Music Department led by Mr Steve Daykin.
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