This Sunday is Pentecost, considered the birthday of the Church.  It is when God fulfills his promise, spoken through Jesus to pour out his Spirit on the church.  There are many things that we could say about the Holy Spirit, but one thing is central—the Holy Spirit is Jesus’s presence everywhere and potentially in everyone who acknowledges and makes a primary place for Jesus in their lives.  Acts 2: 1-21 recounts one of oddest days in history.  Some people are gathering for a regular Jewish feast and all of sudden people are speaking and/or hearing the good news of the Gospel in languages that they had never studied and probably never heard before.  We don’t talk much about Pentecost, but it is a significant day in the life of the church.  Our question for this Sunday is the same one uttered by the crowd when they witnessed the strange miracle: “What does this mean?”  Well, how would YOU answer that inquiry of someone considering the Christian faith?