Pentecost is the birth of the Church through the gift of the Holy Spirit.  Jesus didn’t create the Church just to have a church.  For Jesus, Church isn’t something you do or something you go to.  The Church is His chosen mechanism for carrying out His mission in this world.  The book called Acts shows us what happens when believers allow the Holy Spirit to work through them to accomplish Jesus’ mission–making disciples.  And most important, through Acts and the story of the Church, the Holy Spirit invites me and you  to join in the mission.