May 17th, 2024 by Carl Buffington
Pentecost - What’s it all about?
I remember my first step.
Okay, here’s the scene:
I was the lone clergyman in a rather large New England church. I had spent two years at the post.
I was fixing coffee and hard-boiled eggs for our monthly clergy meeting, which was for priests from local churches.
You need to know that the eggs symbolized these meetings, which were usually filled with hard-boiled and stale arguments about high and low churchmanship.
I heard the speaker mention the Holy Spirit.
Seriously, I thought, I spent three years studying in seminary and two years as a curate in this New England church. Why had I not heard of this Holy Spirit before now?