1.    Pentecost is the Birthday of the church.
2.    Pentecost is a Harvest festival in the Jewish calendar. Our Lord changed it into a harvest of souls.
3.    On this day, the Holy Spirit came down like tongues of fire on the disciples, and they spoke in at least 16 understandable languages to people from every nation under heaven. (Acts 2:5)
4.    3000 families were baptized who immediately started meeting in homes where they had apostolic teaching, fellowship, broke bread   and prayer. This resulted in signs and miracles, sharing of material blessings and daily addition of new souls. (Acts 2:37-47). Very soon an additional 5,000 families were added (Acts 4:4). Soon the new believers became disciples and multiplied (Acts 6:1,7), and then there was daily multiplication of quality churches (Acts 16:5).
5.    The modern day Pentecostal movement was started by 18 African-American women in Azusa Street in 1906. It has now multiplied into 600 million Pentecostals all over the world. Sadly the Pentecostal church does not know its history that it was started by women and continues to degrade women in the church based on distorted versions of Paul's teachings, where Greek word gune was mistranslated as 'women' instead of 'wives'. Empowering women to disciple, baptize, and serve the Lord's supper will create a spiritual tsunami. (1 Cor. 14:33-35; 1 Tim. 2:11-12).
6.    An organic house church does not need any special building, special day, or special person to conduct it. Wherever two or three gather to gather to eat, meet and gossip the gospel, bind the strongman, make disciples and multiply, is an authentic church because the Lord is present in their midst. (Matt. 18:18-20). It is in the “Gathered church” that edification takes place, but it is in the “Scattered church” that results in multiplication. House churches are biblical, historical, effective, productive, customizable, gender neutral and free.
7.    The best way to celebrate the birthday of the church is to replicate the original first Pentecost, i.e. to reap a huge harvest of souls. Aim at baptizing at least 3000 souls. And why not! After all, you believe in a great and awesome God for whom nothing is impossible. You have more resources than Peter. He had no silver or gold, or vehicle, computer, or mobile phone. The simplest way is to invite your neighbors, friends, and colleagues during the Lent period and tell them about the great sacrifice or show them the “Jesus” film. Do not try to make them Christians but disciple them so that they become Followers of Christ by the Pentecost. Do not try to change their culture, name, food habit, or dress code. Do not take them to your church but disciple them wherever they are. The Jews never became Christians; they became Messianic Jews. Do not try to win them by argument but by love.
8.    Reaping a tsunami of harvest requires abundant sowing, (2 Cor. 9:6), watering, manuring, protecting from predators, etc. It will include fasting and praying and uniting with like-minded people from neighboring churches.
9.    Every Christian is “ordained” to fulfill the Great Commission (GC) of our Lord, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptize, equip, and send them on to do the same to the ends of the earth”. “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” The GC has a historical finality about it and requires a completion mindset. (Matt. 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; John 20:21).
10.    The best way to fulfill that Command is to bring forth lasting fruit (John 15:16) which includes sharing the whole wisdom of God, baptizing and breaking bread from house to house. (Acts 20:20,27; 1 Cor. 11:20-23).
11.    Your workplace, village, and the community or business, wherever God has planted you to be a Tree of life, is your primary nuclear church, and you are accountable for their souls. You are to disciple, baptize, and serve the Lord’s supper right there.
12.    Aim to be a millionaire of souls. If you consider yourself 'the least' in the kingdom, then God can multiply you into a thousand within a short period of time. (Isa. 60:22; Matt. 11:11; 1 Cor. 1:26-31)