When the continental armies defeated the vaunted British military, it forever shifted the dynamic of the colonial world. The Battle of Yorktown ended with a song echoing in the streets: “The world turned upside down.” No one expected this. On the day of Pentecost, with religious observers from across the known world gathered in Jerusalem, a rag-tag group of fearful followers of Jesus of Nazareth emerged from obscurity, empowered by the Holy Spirit. The world would never be the same. Their story lives on through us.
