A New Pentecost

About seven years ago, long before I had heard about Reclaiming the Seven Mountains of Culture, the Holy Spirit was speaking to me about this in a slightly different way. In fact, I wrote a poem titled, “A New Pentecost”.

No longer language we first utter,

Human tones and dialects.

Nor words that kinsman use to clutter

Stories that do not reflect,

The special journey of the Spirit,

Unfolding bright where there was dim.

Illuminating with light’s laughter

Exploits of Christ’s mighty Chrism.

Tongues now familiar being gifted,

Fall upon apostles new.

Dialects of art and science

Humanities, the chosen view.

Speak of those things that are not

Transporting them to other planes

To become the things that always were

A rendezvous is what yet remains.

Artists speaking to musicians,

Poets with technologists.

Mathematicians going over

Possibilities with the physicists.

The message given is collective,

Clergy and economist can now relate

To our modern global problems

With purposeful development.

Some will nay-say as they will

“All are drunk, this cannot be!

There is no hope of life eternal

Apart from man’s own majesty.”

Apostles rise within the Kingdom

Full of hope for the New Day

Confident of God’s sure leading

By the path known as The Way.

We can see here how God conspired in the Biblically recorded Pentecost to get the word out about Himself; We do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. In the new Pentecost, the message has not changed, nor has the agent: the great Holy Spirit. What have changed are the languages that the message is going forth in. No longer native tongues, but familiar tongues such as art, science, literature, physics, mathematics, industry, technology, economics; the language of humanities!

Today, God wants people of every familiar tongue to spread His word in that familiar tongue, that all may understand and believe. He also wants cross-cultural sharing; artists speaking to musicians, mathematicians talking to physicists, industrialists speaking with economists, poets interacting with technologists, etc. Once the cross-cultural communication begins, it will be evident to those involved that other segments of the humanities family has the same message and a coming together for purposeful development will occur.

There will be the nay-sayers that claim all are drunk and try to derail the move of God. It will take those of us who, like Peter, are willing to stand and set the record straight.