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that time don't command A Pentecost Sermon : On any given Sunday you come to here as if it’s the most ordinary thing in the world to do. You could just as well be doing anything else. But, here you are — acting as if you’re perfectly normal! These days though, at least in our little corner of the world, fewer and fewer folks are knocking down the doors of the church. More and more people are looking just a little sideways at our gatherings. Questioning just how normal you must be to be here this morning… Once again , we’re being confronted with the scandal of The Church. How strange our little assembly each week, truly is… Take comfort! You are certainly not the first to be told how strange your Sunday morning activities are - with God’s grace we won’t be the last, either. The first Christians certainly had no illusions about their gatherings. They knew how strange their Sunday morning plans made them. A theologian once quipped, Christians...