This week Pastor Laitinen and Pastor Zarling discussed the Festival of Tabernacles/Shelters that is the context of Jesus’ teaching about living water in John 7:37-39. We then discussed the Festival of Pentecost where the Holy Spirit fulfilled Jesus’ words of sending out the Holy Spirit upon his people.
We also studied the outpouring of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12:3-11. We debated the gifts that the Holy Spirit continues to pour out on his people and those gifts which seem to have ceased. The key is for people to be encouraged to use their gifts for the blessing of God’s people and the glorification of our Triune God.
Let the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who wants the water of life take it as a gift. Stay thirsty, my friends. Quench that thirst in the Water of Life.