We are barren, just like Abraham and Sarah.  Yet God calls us to be obedient so that we might have life and become a blessing to the entire world.

A counter-mission to deny the resurrection is mounted while Jesus sends his disciples out with the great commission.

As a church we are called not to make a name for ourselves, but to be fruitful and multiply. Pentecost is the renewal of the command and an empowering to be fruitful and multiply.

As followers of Jesus, we're to work toward unity of the spirit by having sympathy, a tender heart, a humble mind, while always being ready to share God's love.

We are called to possibly suffer for being faithful to Jesus.

We are being built into a spiritual house, which is to give testimony to the goodness of God.

We are called to be holy as God our Father is holy. Holiness means living with genuine mutual love.

We have been reborn to new life in Christ. This rebirth makes us strangers in our own land.

Jesus enters Jerusalem, not on a mighty warhorse, but on a donkey. He comes as the true but humble servant king. As our king is, so should we be.