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Jan 12, 2025

When the Holy Spirit Shows Up

When the Holy Spirit Shows Up

Passage: Acts 8:14-17

Speaker: Rev. Rafe Vigil

This is Baptism of the Lord Sunday; it's the event that ordains and begins the ministry of Jesus. Each time in scripture, when the Holy Spirit shows up, people are empowered for the activity of God, which is kingdom activity. The book of Acts has a few stories of the Holy Spirit showing up, people getting baptized with this power, and then things happen. Today, way too often, we see baptism as merely a right of passage. It is not a privilege we are due. Baptism is an ordination, a commission to take up ministry with the Holy Spirit's power. That may be a bit too radical for many of us. We would rather just believe with our minds and not let our whole life be upended.