Pull the trigger, Lord, unleash the potential of my life!

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SUMMARY: In Acts 2:1-4, the Holy Spirit comes down upon the disciples, igniting their potential power and initiating the foundation of the church. The difference between the ministry of John the Baptist and Jesus was that Jesus had the authority to manage the creative power of God and ignite the potential in others through the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The church before Pentecost had the potential power of God within them, but it needed to be ignited by an infusion of energy from the Holy Spirit. The controversy between theologians about whether the Holy Spirit is received only once or through a second baptism is irrelevant, as the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a transformative experience that releases the potential power within us. Without the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church can still do important and useful things, but its capacity to release energy is limited.

The church needs to have a transformative experience with the power of the Holy Spirit in order to truly make an impact. A classic evangelic johanin church is not equipped with the power and the energy to move the rocks and change the ultimate landscape necessary for the revival that we are expecting. We must learn to release the gift of God that is innate within us and learn how to move in the power of the Holy Spirit. We need to be comfortable in the order of God and the creative chaos of God, and we need to learn how to navigate both the placid lake and the torrid rivers of the Holy Spirit. We need to experience these areas and learn how to manage the substance of the power of God. We must lose the appetite for control and release the spirit of program, surrendering control to the Holy Spirit. We need to be a church that moves in the unpredictable wind of the Holy Spirit.

We’re going to go straight to the Book of Acts, chapter 2, a passage that is very well known, the word says: “… when the day of Pentecost came they were all together in one place and suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each one of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues that the spirit enabled them…”

Where do you start? I’ve been wrestling because this passage is so great with significance and importance. We’ve preached so much about it or around it and I contemplated skipping chapter 2 all together, going straight to Acts chapter 3 and continuing our study of the Book of Acts in this way. But I thought it would be a criminal act to do that because it’s a passage that we need to respect and give its proper place and we’ll see how much time it takes us to traverse this verse and get to know it, but we’re going to dedicate the time necessary.