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Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father

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and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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We meet on a morning when our country has been struck by a

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terrorist attack once again. 12 hours ago, a number of people were

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killed and many injured as three men brought evil acts of terror to

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London. Today's Pentecost Sunday, we meet in the shadow of these

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horrifying acts, to worship God. To do so, is not a distraction or

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escapism. We do what the people of God have done for centuries. We come

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into the presence of God ringing ourselves, all that concerns us, and

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all we carry, ringing our world with all that is so deeply troubling to

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God. He knows us, loves us, and is the one who can make and bring the

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difference we long for. As we begin, let us stand and pray now in a

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minutes silence for all caught up in the events of last night.

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We are delighted to be hosting this special service here at holy

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Trinity, Folkestone. We warmly welcome Archbishop Justin,

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Archdeacon Elizabeth Adekunle and worship leaders Matt Redman and Tim

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Hughes. APPLAUSE

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Holy Trinity is a benefit of three churches which work in

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collaboration, congregation today made up of members of many churches

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of different traditions. Throughout Folkestone and Southeast

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Kent. We come together in Pentecost, prayer and praise. And I'm now

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invite Matt Redman to lead us. Every breath you take, we give you

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praise. No one else can take your place. You stay the same. You pave

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the way. With faith, we say, bless it be your name. Give your Grace.

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# When I'm found in the desert place

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# Though I walk through the wilderness

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# When the darkness closes in Lord

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Each of us comes to God in need of renewal through the fire of God's

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love, in need of refreshment for our souls, in need

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Hear these words of invitation from the living God

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'Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters;

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and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!

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Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

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Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labour

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Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,

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and you will delight in the richest of fare.

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Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.

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Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.'

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What God has prepared for those who love him,

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he has revealed to us through the Spirit;

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for the Spirit searches everything.

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Therefore, let us in penitence open our hearts to the Lord,

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who has prepared good things for those who love him.

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Come, let us return to the Lord and say.

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ALL: Lord our God, in our sin we have avoided your call.

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Our love for you is like a morning cloud, like the dew

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Have mercy on us; deliver us from judgement;

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bind up our wounds and revive us; in Jesus Christ our Lord.

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May the Father forgive us by the death of his Son

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and strengthen us to live in the power of the

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Almighty God, your ascended Son has sent us into the world to preach

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the good news of your kingdom: inspire us with your Spirit

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and fill our hearts with the fire of your love,

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that all who hear your Word may be drawn to you,

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through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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O God, who to an expectant and united Church granted Pentecost

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the gift of the Holy Spirit, give us the help of the same Spirit,

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in all our life and worship, that we may expect great things

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from you and attempt great things for you,

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and show to the world your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ;

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To whom with you and the Holy Spirit be honour and glory,

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# His goodness restores my soul. This next song was written as a

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prayer for our nation. In the light of everything this morning let's

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sing this as a prayer. Thank you very much for coming and

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speaking to us this morning, Isaac. Tell us about your background. So my

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parents moved over to England from Ghana in their early 20s, in search

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of a better life, they had me and my younger brother and they were both

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Christians so we were raised in a Christian home but I didn't really

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know what God was to me for myself. What made the difference? Well, it

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was actually a day in secondary school when I was playing football,

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I was about eight of my friends and it was powering down with rain and

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out of nowhere a massive lightning bolt struck the playground and

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struck one of my friends who was then rushed to hospital and put on a

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life support machine. I found that through that situation I often found

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myself praying to God, praying for hope and praying for healing and

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eventually he healed my friend and he came back to life and that really

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strengthened my faith and proved that God was real for me. There will

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be many people today who at home watching this or here will think,

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oh, we need that. We need that. What are you praying this morning, when

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you hear the news, how do you respond just instinctively in your

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heart in prayer? Well, for me prayer is a bridge, both over still waters

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and troubled waters. I think that prayer is a bridge to hope. It's a

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bridge to love. It's a bridge to peace. That's what I will be praying

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for today. Thank you very much, Isaac. Thank you.

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APPLAUSE. A reading from John's gospel set

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on the day of resurrection: On the evening of that

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first day of the week, when the disciples were together,

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with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders,

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Jesus came and stood among them After he said this, he showed

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them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed

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when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said,

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"Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me,

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I am sending you." And with that he breathed on them

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and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone's sins,

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their sins are forgiven, if you do not forgive them,

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they are not forgiven." A reading from the Acts

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of the Apostles. When the day of Pentecost came,

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they were all together in one place. Suddenly from Heaven a sound

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like the blowing of a violent wind and filled the whole house where

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they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues

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of fire that separated All of them were filled

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with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages

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as the Spirit enabled them. Now there were staying

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in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews When they heard this sound,

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a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one

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heard their own Utterly amazed, they asked,

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"Aren't all these Then how is it that each of us hears

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them in our native language?" We hear them declaring the wonders

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of God in our own tongues!" Amazed and perplexed,

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they asked one another, Come Holy Spirit and fill our hearts

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with the fire of your love. Amen. Please be seated.

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We gather today on this Pentecost Sunday with Christians all over the

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world. Those in prosperity and in need, in war and in peace, in joy

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and in sorrow. We have had ten days since

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The strongest power in the world is the love of Jesus Christ. It is more

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powerful than the evil of terror or the profound wickedness of the

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terrorist. It is invisible to most rulers, it is unheard of by most

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communicators, it has no Twitter account, it does not show up on

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Facebook. But it has overcome more nations than the greatest armies,

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changed more lives... APPLAUSE

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Changed more lives than the finest orators and communicators, drawn

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more people into true community than all the social media there is, has

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been or ever could be. It breaks down barriers between races. It

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tears down the frontiers between nations, it overcomes the

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oppressions between genders and classes and capacity all wealth or

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education. It is this love which daily

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transforms my life, our lives, all those who follow Jesus Christ and

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the lives of many millions around the world, and we need the

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difference is that Jesus makes. We need the order brought out of chaos,

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we need the knowledge of an eternal purpose for each of us, we need to

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know that whatever other people do to us, God loves us for ever. The

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events of recent days in London and Manchester, the news reports from

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areas of conflict, our own lives are evidence that we need difference. It

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is not a difference that political parties on however sincere and

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committed, can bring. I am no cynic, I respect of those who gave their

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lives to public service, they merit our prayers and our admiration. But

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that difference that has to come is a difference that can only be made

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possible by God. In the Reading we have just heard from John 's Gospel,

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as far as the disciples are concerned, all hope of things ever

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being different has died. This reading is set not on Pentecost

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Sunday, but seven weeks before read on the third day after Jesus has

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been executed. The disciples are together, they are devastated,

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broken and utterly fearful. They are locked in for safety, unable to move

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forward. Locked doors, as we saw last night, are sometimes a

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necessity. But we must know how to move forward. We know those times

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when we have all felt the same, we might, some of us, some listening

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today at home, be in such times now. There is a risk of our nation

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becoming a people who flee danger and tried to lock themselves away

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when our culture, our history and our calling is to be those who

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overcome danger and overcome those who cause danger. But into the

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disciples locked up lives, any locked up lives, all communities or

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nations, there is in Jesus comes. He does not stay away from pain and

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sorrow. He does not come alongside those who have everything sorted and

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worked out. He comes to the places of deepest hurt and hopelessness.

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Not even locked doors can keep him out. Such is his love for us. When

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Jesus arrives, he brings peace, his first words, I remember meeting a

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journalist a couple of years ago, in the Middle East, his life destroyed

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by ethnic cleansing, his faith locked away. And he came back to

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Christ and even after decades of suffering, his life was unlocked,

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his hope restored, his piece renewed. Jesus brings peace. This is

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not a casual greeting. It is the generating of that deep sense that

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all is well. It is spoken by one who bears the rooms which shows the

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costs of his words -- wounds. And then he sends his disciples as my

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father sent me, he says, so I'll send you. I spend most of my time,

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most of the days, not quite or even nearly living up to the job I do,

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but this instruction, this sending, takes it to an even more

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mind-boggling level for all of us. Sent as Jesus was sent either

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father. At this point, I think it was a good job that doors were

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locked for the disciples. Or they would have scuppered. He has just

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shown them his hands and his sign, this is what he was sent to do to

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love the world to death. It is what we are sent to do. And this is a

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costly, costly calling. Loving people is hard. It is demanding. It

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means putting others before ourselves. And when I'm even those

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who do that, who have loved selflessly, I am deeply moved. A

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group of young women in a town near London who saw the sex workers on

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the street trafficked, enslaved, imprisoned, and went and gave up all

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that they had in their jobs and income to be with them, to help them

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to unlock them and set them free. For the sake of Christ. And now

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Jesus sends these followers, these disciples, and so they become

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apostles, literally sent once. The same happens to all of us, every

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disciple becomes an apostle. Every follower is sent and we are sent to

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bear testimony to the love of God for the world, but who is up to this

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task? Then Jesus previous on them, equipping them for the task. What do

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they get, big budgets? Limitless resources? A big bug of answers to

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every question? No, they get the holy spirit. We need the spirit

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because we can't do this in our own strength. With our own love, with

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our own ideas. We need the power of the holy spirit to bring the

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difference that Jesus makes. To be the difference. That is why on this

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day of Pentecost we gather to receive a fresh touch of the spirit

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of God, a new filling. It is not for our own sakes, but for the sakes of

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those we are sent to. Sent as the father sent the sun. For there are

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many who know nothing of the wonders of God is Love, who lived in locked

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up rooms, many who long for peace, many who have no sense of that

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extravagance, relentless love which pours out of the cross of Jesus for

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them, and out of the empty tomb and on the day of Pentecost. Jesus is

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among us this day. He is present to all of his people. He is here to

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breathe his breath into us that we might go in his name. There is

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nothing more involving, more life changing, more freeing than to

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receive the spirit of God. The spirit does not simply change us,

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the spirit changes the world. Come, holy spirit, Amen.. ALL: Amen..

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Together, let us declare our faith in God.

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We believe in God the Father, from whom every family in heaven

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and on earth is named. We believe in God the Son, who lives

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in our hearts through faith, and fills us with his love.

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Will you all join me in praying now, for the church and the world

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# Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.

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# Melt me, mould me, fill me, use me.

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# Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.

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Fill the whole Church with the power of Christ.

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Come in all the mystery signified by the wind and fire,

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Not held in the grasp of anyone, or any thought, or any thing.

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Come, sovereign Spirit, as we pray, and move our

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# Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.

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God, you came upon us and suffered a cruel untimely death.

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In the face of terror, you show us what we rightly love. Visit the

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people of London today. In the midst of horror, anger, grief, injury and

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dismay. Comfort the injured and bereaved. Strengthen the hand of all

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those who bring healing, help and kindness in the face of agony and

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brutality. Teach each of us to hold dear what can so suddenly be

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snatched away, to cherish what can be so intimately threatened. And to

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uphold what some are seeking to destroy. Make this time of terror

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and loss a moment of renew in what we most deeply believe and most

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firmly maintain that, though we fear, we may more truly love and,

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though we despair, we may more profoundly no whose kingdom we seek

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to. Now and for ever. Amen. # Spirit of the living

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God fall afresh on me. We pray for the nation in the run-up

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to the general election. Give to those of us who have the right to

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elect representatives to serve in the Government of this country an

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urgent sense of our responsibility, a clear and unbiased judgment and a

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generous concern for the good of all. We ask that you would govern

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our land and lead our nation in the ways of freedom, justice and peace

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through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.

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# Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.

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O God, who on the day of Pentecost enabled your spirit-filled people

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to bear witness to their Lord, that all heard the good news

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Baptise your church today with the same spirit of power.

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Help us to bear our witness with new zeal and energy.

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And empower us as witnesses to share our faith.

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Inspire our minds with the vision of a world won for our Lord.

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And stir our wills to pray and work until your kingdom come

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That we may fulfil this mission, to the Glory of God's name.

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# Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.

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# Melt me, mould me, fill me, use me.

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# Spirit of the living God fall afresh on me.

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Let us draw our prayers together in the words that Jesus gave us.

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ALL: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

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Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven.

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# Revival, we want to see your kingdom here

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Let us draw our prayers together as we say...

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ALL: Holy Spirit, sent by the Father, ignite

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Strengthen your children with the gift of faith.

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Revive your Church with the breath of love and renew the face

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of the earth through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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We have laid before him the great needs of the world.

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Now he sends us into his world to live lives which witness in every

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We rely on the blessing of his presence.

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May the Father from whom every family in earth and heaven

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receives its name strengthen you with His Spirit in your inner

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being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith,

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and the blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit be

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upon you and those whom you love and for whom you pray,

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At night when I go to bed and see the stars shine I know it can only

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be the work of somebody that's so amazing. It was designed by your

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saviour that's irreplaceable. That's exactly what you are. You are

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immense. You rose on the third, a legendary favour. We worship you

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again and again. Because of you we have the hope of heaven to the end.

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