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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