God’s Antidote to Gloom and Doom

Summary

Pentecost is about power, but not the sort of power that pressures doom-spenders until they feel trapped in a pattern of excessive consumerism. The Greek word for “power” is a common one throughout the book of Acts. The word is dunamis, from which comes our word “dynamite.” Dynamite is destructive by its very nature, but the distinctive Pentecost version of power (dunamis) is creative and life-giving.