TOO MUCH WINE

This coming Sunday is Pentecost - the birthday of the Church - so I am preaching on the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples as recorded in the 2nd chapter of Acts. 

When all of the disciples began to speak in various languages, the crowds who gathered around were split.

Many people were "amazed and perplexed". These folks asked each other, "What does this mean?"

But some mocked the disciples, saying, "They have had too much wine." 

Scott Adams often speaks of the phenomenon he calls "two movies playing on the same screen". It is a recognition of the way people interpret the reality in front of them in wildly divergent ways.

3,000 new converts were added to the church that day. I wonder how many "too much wine" mockers were in that number. 

I am guessing not a single one.

Some things deserve to be mocked. 

Some things deserve to be taken with the utmost seriousness. 

And sometimes eternity depends on knowing which is which.