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Sunday, May 17

“Resurrection Commitment” - Acts 2:1-13, 42-47

“Are you all in?”  “Give 110%!” “Leave it all on the field!” Phrases like this have been commonly employed as challenges to participants in a variety of settings to stir passion and commitment to a cause or goal in front of them.  Even in faith life, such phraseology has a parallel as Jesus Himself called His disciples – and us – to “deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him.”  Jesus final post-resurrection encounter with the disciples happens not through His physical presence but through His promised presence in the form of the Holy Spirit.  The disciples’ “all-in” moment had arrived when the Holy Spirit was poured out.  The disciples were called to step to the plate and “make it happen” through the Holy Spirit’s power.  And even though they didn’t fully understand in that moment what “all-in” would mean, they had the ongoing presence and power of the Spirit that would propel them forward.  While we don’t know what tomorrow holds, we can be “all-in” because the Spirit lives in us and works through us to see abundant life unfold right before our very eyes!