Textweek ATLAS - May 15, 2016 Pentecost C

Kershner, Shannon Johnson, "Outside the Walls," Journal for Preachers, 2006. Sermon.
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"Pentecost church is one that is willing to take risks and engage people who may look or sound different or act differently from the usual person sitting next to us in the pew. A Pentecost church is one that does not expect that unity in Christ must equal uniformity, or diversity must bring division."

Long, Thomas G., "A Night at the Burlesque: Wanderings through the Pentecost Narrative," Journal for Preachers, 1991.
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"There they are, people who are struggling, sometimes in nearly slapstick ways, to be the Church of Jesus Christ. Keep looking because Luke is claiming that if we look carefully and faithfully we can, from time to time, see resting on them the tongues of the Pentecostal fire. Such an insight pushes the language of preaching to the limits, perhaps even to the burlesque."

 

 

Schott, Faye E., "Acts 2:1-21, Between Text & Sermon," Interpretation, 1996.
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"God's faithfulness is not depicted simply as a matter of continuation. On the arrival of the day of Pentecost, the promise of then becomes now. The time of the last days has reached fulfillment, in accordance with the prophecy of Joel, and that fulfillment is connected with the pouring out of the Spirit in witness to the risen and ascended Jesus."

 

Taylor, Barbara Brown, "God's Breath," Journal for Preachers, 2003.
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"That is why I think it is so interesting that we have two very different birth stories to choose from this morning. One of them is told by John, whom many Christians consider the most spiritual of the four gospel writers, and one is told by Luke, who is the author of Acts. That they tell two different stories should not surprise anyone, since they wrote for different times and places and from different theologies as well, but if we are sometimes confused about what it means to be the church in the world then John and Luke are at least two reasons why."

 

Willimon, William H., "'Everyone Whom the Lord our God Calls': Acts 2 and the Miracle of Pentecost Preaching in a Multicultural Context," Journal for Preachers, 2002.
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"We preachers must be constantly reminded that God's peculiar multiculturalism begins with the Spirit's "violent wind" (2:2) that intruded into our settled, religious club and demanded that we follow the Spirit's assault upon "every nation under heaven" (2:5) with a promise to "all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him" (2:39). Preaching is always confrontive of the world's boundaries and divisions, as well as the world's sources of identity."