![Becoming a Person: Pentecost Paradox](https://dq5pwpg1q8ru0.cloudfront.net/2020/12/11/00/59/51/e308b026-c63c-4acb-a62f-d498a300ad26/Pentecost%202017.jpg)
When John tells us in John 7 that "as yet there was no Spirit," what does he mean? It turns out that what Jesus is talking about is a particular "way of being," a particular way of being "personal," both for us and for God! Like no other Principle Feast of the Church, Pentecost highlights the connection between the finite and the Infinite, a potential that is a promise of the Resurrected Christ. Without this promised gift congregations are simply "empty shells" and the promise of a new community woven together from the nations is simply a pipe dream. And do we need this promised "new humanity" in our world? That is the definition of a rhetorical question!