Be Still And Know

Acts 2:42-43 NLT 'All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer. A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders.' Pentecost is the birth of the Church, the missional bridgehead across which a God-fearing group of individuals are transformed into an empowered community and entrusted with a mandate to express God’s kingdom throughout the world. Jesus initially gathered twelve apostles, symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel. (This number is significantly re-established with Judas’ replacement during the Jerusalem Novena.) Jesus then commissioned the 70 to go out to gather in the harvest, 70 (or 72) being symbolic of what was then understood to represent all the people groups in the world. The kingdom available to all who seek it. At the Last Supper, Jesus introduced the new covenant of his body and blood, before he himself became the sacrificial lamb cr