I’d rather not be seated next to a Mede or a Capadotian. I’m not so interested in being the Body of Christ with the naïve Methodist or the speaking in tongues chick. And to all of this the Spirit says “Oh yeah? Well it’s not about you…and trust me that’s a good thing.” It is the Spirit who turns us from a they into a we.

And the “It’s not about you” thing goes for both us as individuals and us as individual churches and denominations. As special as we think we are … we simply aren’t the body without all the others even the ones we’d rather not be included with and the ones who’d frankly rather not claim us either.

But the good news is that none of us have any idea what we are doing. Just like those at the first Pentecost.  We don’t know how to pray as we ought but the Spirit intercedes as St Paul says…with sighs too deep for words. The Spirit intercedes by swooping down like a hawk to mess us up, and then from that chaos forms us into the body of Christ.