‘What’s going on here, explain yourselves?’’ We’ve never seen anything like this before, people on fire for God, you must be drunk!’

That was the first reaction when people saw what had happened to the 120 disciples of Jesus, who’d stuck it out for seven weeks and had waited and waited and waited for the promised release of the Holy Spirit from heaven. It seemed a long time coming. Jesus had stressed to them to not leave the city, not to go anywhere, not to do anything, but just to wait, until they got it.

I don’t know how they managed to hold themselves back. They had got the Holy Spirit inside them when he had Continue reading →