_{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 ... whom I do not exalt to become an heir. I exalt Him because I already am.