On Pentecost Sunday, Mark Sayers brings our series A Sent People to its turning point in Acts 2, the moment the Spirit is poured out and the church is born. But before he unpacks the violent wind and the tongues of fire, Mark takes us back to Peter, who followed at a distance, who denied Jesus around the fire, who wept bitterly. What closes the gap between that broken man and the bold preacher who stands up on Pentecost? Preparation. Mark reminds us that God is always pouring out His Spirit; the real question is what kind of soil He's landing on.

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As we approach Pentecost, Mark takes us into Acts 2 to explore one of the great preconditions for the Spirit being poured out, that He falls not on isolated individuals, but on a people gathered together. Drawing a line from the ancient heresy of Gnosticism to the modern, Oprah-flavoured "religion without a name," Mark exposes the enemy's long-running strategy to atomise the church into disconnected spiritual individuals, each chasing a private Pentecost. But the gospel moves in the opposite direction: Jesus descends into flesh, dwells among us, and pours His Spirit onto a community.

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Continuing our series A Sent People, Trudi Sayers opens up Acts 2:33 and Philippians 2 to explore the two sides of being "poured out" — the Spirit Jesus pours into us, and the lives we then pour out for others. Trudi reminds us that Jesus did not consider equality with God something to cling to, but took on the very nature of a servant — and calls us to do the same. The good news? God pours His Spirit onto poured-out people. Trudi invites us to bring the fragments of our lives, our weakness, our brokenness, and our yes to the altar — trusting that Christ will make something beautiful out of what we surrender.

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