![]() As the body is made up of many members, so many interpretations may be needed to do justice to the body of the biblical text. interpretive traditions) to minister the meaning of God’s Word and the fullness of Christ. ![]() Protestant evangelicalism evidences a Pentecostal plurality: the various Protestant streams testify to Jesus in their own vocabularies, and it takes many languages (i.e. ![]() It takes a thousand tongues to say and sing our great Redeemer’s praise. Note well: they were all saying the same thing (testifying about Jesus) in different languages. Although onlookers thought that the believers who received the Spirit at Pentecost were babbling (Acts 2:13), in fact they were speaking intelligibly in several languages (Acts 2:8-11). And accomplish it he does, but not in the way we might have expected. Unity – interpretive agreement and mutual understanding – is, it would appear, something that only God can accomplish. At Pentecost, God builds his temple, uniting people in Christ. The people who built the tower of Babel sought to make a name, and a unity, for themselves. “It is well known that Pentecost reverses Babel. ![]()
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