Matthew 28: 18-20, " Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Imagine that before us there is an array of bedroom doors suspended on a complex system of cogs and conveyor belts, a million hanging hunks of hardware clanking and clicking through a never-ending dance-of the doors. Red doors and blue doors; old doors, new doors; scratched doors, doors with children’s names on them. Those doors are the points of entry into the human sphere. The rooms beyond those doors – every one of them the bedroom of a child – are the landing places on which the visions that scare meet the victims that scream. The doors are inter-dimensional, every one a connection between two worlds. The dream world of a child and their bedrooms.
This chaotic and colourful scene is a wonderful picture of the workings of the kingdom of God. Somewhere in a realm beyond our own the plans of God are formulated and rolled out promising blessings for the earth. On our side of the deal, a world of need cries out for those blessings. Between the two linking the two worlds and making the mission of God possible – there are connected people. In children's dreams it is the doors that bridge the two worlds; in the kingdom of God it is the people who know Jesus.
Today is Pentecost we celebrate the Holy Spirit coming to a world, enabling the normal everyday people who know Jesus, to become extraordinary people who link the world of the good news of Jesus to a world that doesn't know him.
This Pentecost be one of those people.
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