Sunday Recap | BEginnING | Of The End

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This Super Bowl Sunday sermon was characterized by discussion. ​

Ben barely wrote a sermon, but instead opened up a congregational discussion about the role of experience in our spirituality. The reading we looked at was Acts 2, where people from all over the world, all of whom spoke different languages, came together and had an experience of the Holy Spirit which allowed for them to communicate freely between one another. Contextually, we contrasted this story to the story of Babble, where the people of the world came together to attempt to build a temple to God, and in turn God punished them by toppling the tower and scattering them across the Earth, cursing them to speak different languages. In this story, the opposite occurred. People come together in celebration, shared in a spiritual experience which invited them to communicate and go forth to do the work Jesus set out to do before died.
We talked about how our experiences shape our spirituality. We challenged ourselves, again, to come together and listen to one another because we believe it is within the shared stories of our experiences we can begin to paint the picture of the unconditional.