Getting Started

1. What connotation do you have of the Holy Spirit?
2. When you think of the Holy Spirit in your own life, what comes to mind?
3. How would you describe the Holy Spirit to someone who wasn’t a believer who asked?

Digging In

1. Based on what Brandon discussed in his message, what is the significance of the Holy Spirit coming at Pentecost?
2. Based on Peter’s sermon, why is this a new era for God’s chosen people?
3. What is the significance of wind, fire, and prophetic utterances? Do you believe God still shows himself in this day and age? How?
4. What is the overall purpose of the Holy Spirit coming to those who followed Jesus? Does that purpose still apply today?

Making It Yours

1. Would you say the Holy Spirit is active in your own life? Why or why not?
2. Who is God trying to reach with the Gospel through the Holy Spirit in you?
3. What questions do you have about the Holy Spirit?
4. How can Westwind be reaching “all humanity” with the Gospel.

“a left-handed Benjaminite” (Judges 3:15)

Ehud was the first judge that the Lord appointed over Israel. He is listed as left-handed, not because the Bible wants us to know what hand he fought with (like baseball pitcher), but to tell us that he was an inferior fighter. Being left-handed in this time period meant to have  less-than-normal ability. God, since he knows this about Ehud and the society he lives in, chooses him because of this fact. God was choosing someone who was less than perfect to be an advocate for Him.

Are you spiritually left-handed. Is there some “flaw” in your life that God wants to use in order for you to serve him? You may have a painful past that God wants to use to help others. You may have a deficiency that God wants to show His greatness through. Being left-handed is no longer an inadequacy (I know this because I am left handed). God uses the anyone to bring glory to Himself.