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Through the blood of Christ, God tears down the walls that divide humanity and creates one new people united in Jesus who refuse to rebuild unnecessary walls of division.

In Christ, God raises spiritually dead humanity into the resurrection life of Jesus and forms a new humanity filled with his Spirit. 

Pentecost announces that the crucified, risen, and ascended Jesus has poured out the Holy Spirit upon his people so that the life of the age to come might break into the world through a Spirit-filled Church.

Ascension Sunday reminds us that Jesus Christ reigns over heaven and earth, above every power, and is forming a people who embody his kingdom in the world.

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God’s plan in Christ is to bring heaven and earth back together—and we are the new humanity chosen, redeemed, and sealed to live that reality now.

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In Christ, God is forming a new humanity with a new way of relating—to God, to one another, and to the powers at work in the world.

As we walk through this life where suffering and evil are present, we are invited to bring all of our emotions to God, trusting in Him and submitting to God’s way of living in this world. God is good, God is trustworthy, God is doing something about the evil we see. Do not fret!

Christian maturity is marked by a Spirit-empowered shift from individualism to committed life in the family of God.