Spirit of Adoption (Pentecost Sunday)

Some read the “we” in the text from Romans to be an insider word. And it certainly can be read that way. It is descriptive of the life we who have claimed Christ live in community. We are heirs, and we know suffering and glory both. When we lay this text alongside the Pentecost story, however, we need to reevaluate the “we.” The family is bigger than we realized. The Spirit is leading us to places and people we might never have imagined before.