What better time to celebrate a baptism than at Pentecost. And that’s precisely what we did here at MBC last Sunday, Pentecost Sunday when Katt came into membership.
The festival of Pentecost originates from the Greek word meaning fiftieth and it took place fifty days after Passover. It comes from the Old Testament Feast of Weeks, also known as the Feast of Harvest which in the Old Testament was a day of thanksgiving on which people offered the first fruits of the harvest to God, thanking Him for the wind, rain, grain and provision He had given.
It’s fitting, then, that with Jerusalem packed with people, through driving winds, tongues of fire and the gift of speaking in foreign languages God would choose this precise moment to usher in the Holy Spirit, to enter an upper room and change the exclusivity of Old Testament belief to something new, to something not given to just a few but to all who believe in Jesus Christ.
And it was this belief, that Jesus Christ is her personal saviour that Katt shared with us through the simple act of baptism.
Welcome Katt, it’s great to have you with us.