Pentecost Paper-first cut

1) OK Pentecost means fifty days (after Passover). why does it not have the impact of Christmas and Easter?
2) When you hear the word Pentecost what comes into your mind?
3) Do you think that Pentecost deliberately echoes a harvest festival, not of grain but of people?
4)Notice that tradition has it as the gift of Torah (law/teaching) Some of the words applied to Torah=bread of life are also applied to Jesus. Compare Pentecost to the appearance on Sinai in exodus 19-20.
5) David , the descendant of Ruth (contra typo in paper) may have died on Pentecost. he was a noted liturgist and part of the line of Jesus. Any significance there?
6) To what degree was the first outpouring of the Spirit a "cacophony" and where is it the exact opposite?
7) Answer her questions at the end of the second full paragraph on pg. 3.
8)How is today's church in a similar position ot the first community?
9) Discuss her last two paragraphs.
10) Recently we read the new statement of faith's section on the spirit. Let's look at it again.
11) What is your conception of the Holy Spirit?