The Pentecost Parable

by Stephen Phelps | Jun 12, 2011 | doctrine, freedom, interpretation, Pentecost, sermon 2011, spiritual community

Pentecost is often called “the birthday of the church.” But if we are born “not of flesh, but of water and the Spirit,” (John 3:5), then this church body is a spiritual body and it simply cannot have had a natural birthday on which it was plopped into the daylight of history a blinking wet chick.