by Trent - from Sept. 2005
One of the things that I like about the story of Penecost is that the Holy Spirit descended on all sorts of people. In fact, there is no demographic that is suggested as the type of person that the Holy Spirit descended on. They weren't in a religious posture. It wasn't for those that were "trained." Education meant nothing. Gender meant nothing. Even the language that they spoke meant nothing. It is simple.
Only those that show up - and are empty ... can be filled.
So by the filling, I can minister, and so can others minister to me. I don't put them through any more requirement (educational, training, gender, etc.) than the Holy Spirit put me through, nor than did the Holy Spirit put others through on Pentecost.
I wish you to know that simplicity also. The simplicity that erases levels of elitism, and destroys self-validation. It is the simplicity that makes every saint of equal inheritance by the grace of the Almighty through the Lord Jesus Christ.
All sin is sin, and requires forgiveness. All sin is not equal, only forgiveness is equal. All sin is forgiven through the cross. Only the peoples rejection of that sacrifice leaves them in the dark, separated from God. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 2 - Those of Steadfast Faith in Christ are Free From Doubt, In Them Sin Has Also Vanished]