“When the Holy Spirit will come upon you, you shall receive power ... to be my witnesses” (Acts 1:8). Being baptised in the Spirit of God in quite a spectacular way was the experience of the first disciples of Jesus in response to their obedience to his instruction to “Go wait in Jerusalem”. The image of the tongues of fire used perhaps by Luke to demonstrate the intensity of their experience, although we know fire was often an image used of the power of God even in the Old T

This afternoon, in my capacity as Ecumenical Facilitator for Greater Manchester Churches Together, I will be leading worship at a Pentecost Eve Service at Sale Salvation Army Citadel, which will include participants from different Chistian traditions from across Greater Manchester. The final hymn will be “Come, Holy Spirit, come” by Michael Forster. Michael Lindsay Forster grew up in an Anglican family but became a member of the Baptist Church. After studying and practising a