Whit Sunday

Acts 2:1
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.”

When the Church’s history begins, we find the people of God gathered in a single location. This fact gives little encouragement to those who think that belief is an essentially private matter: Christianity is a corporate matter and has been from its first day. Not only were they gathered in one place: they were of one mind. It is perhaps not a very adventurous interpretation of this verse to suggest that the unity of purpose among God’s people was a precondition for the coming of the Holy Spirit. If part of the message of Pentecost is that worship is a corporate public matter, the third of the Church’s major festivals is a holiday worthy of public celebration.