A Creative/traditional Pentecostal Service

The following service adapts traditional texts and patterns for Pentecost worship. Adapt to the needs of the local congregation. In the early church Pentecost was not the beginning of a new season, but the end of the Easter season (as in the Jewish calendar from Passover to the Feast of Weeks). In the twentieth century, Pentecost has received greater attention because of the renewed emphasis on the Holy Spirit, especially from the charismatic movement. More churches are coming into a greater experience of the Holy Spirit, making Pentecost Sunday a time to celebrate not only the primitive church's experience, but also the experience of the twentieth-century church with the new outpouring of the Spirit. The service below is an adaptation of the ancient St. John Chrysostom liturgy. Unlike Western worship, which moves in linear fashion from one point of worship to another, this Pentecost worship ties all the themes of worship into a single tapestry. A Pentecost Liturgy Entrance Hymn…