Pentecost was the first activity of the first local church of Christ. If so be it was meant by the Lord to be in all ages the model for His local churches, as Finney, Edwards, Wesley, Whitefield and all before thought it and so practiced, as indeed in any other view of it, it is especially important that we first get the complete story of that event. This has never before been attempted, so far as we know. Our complete story must begin with John 16:8–11 “And
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