Pip: Bethel Christian Reformed Church, Dunnville — where even a Sunday in late May turns into a full theological double-header.

Mara: Bethel CRC has the lineup for May 24th, and it’s a Spirit-focused Sunday from morning to evening — one service drawing from Ephesians, the other from Acts. Let’s start with what’s actually on the schedule for both services.

Morning And Evening Worship

Pip: Pentecost Sunday has a way of front-loading the big questions — what does it mean to be filled with the Spirit, and what does that filling actually do in the world? These two services take that question and run it across the full arc of the day.

Mara: The morning service frames it from the inside out: the announcement reads, “we will reflect on ‘Be Filled With the Spirit’ based on Ephesians 5:1-21.”

Pip: Ephesians 5 is one of those passages that doesn’t let you stay abstract for long — it moves from the command to be filled straight into how that shapes speech, relationships, and how you carry yourself day to day. The stakes are practical and immediate.

Mara: And the evening service picks up where that leaves outward — if the morning is about what the Spirit does inside a person, the evening turns to what the Spirit does in the world. “The Spirit’s Answer to Babel” draws from Acts 2:4-14, the Pentecost account itself, where the fracture of Babel starts running in reverse.

Pip: Babel scattered language and divided people. Pentecost gathers them. That’s not a small claim to make on a Sunday evening in Dunnville.

Mara: Both services are available in person at Bethel Dunnville — the morning at 10:00 a.m., the evening at 7:00 p.m. — and both are available right from this website, live on the church’s YouTube channel for anyone who can’t be there in the room.

Pip: So whether you show up once or twice, the day is building a single argument: the Spirit fills, and then the Spirit sends.

Mara: That’s the throughline — inward formation in the morning, outward consequence by evening.

Pip: A Spirit-filled morning and a Pentecost evening.

Mara: The questions those passages raise don’t really stay in the sanctuary.