Every year in church we celebrate the Risen Lord for 8 weeks, Easter through Pentecost. Longer then we celebrate both Advent and Lent - and yet the time in which Jesus roamed the earth after resurrection was but a small portion of his ministry. In fact, in the Gospels we have only but a few chapters worth of passages about what happen after Jesus rose.
One reason I believe this is the case is because it is important for Jesus' humanity to not be lost by Jesus divinity. By this I mean that Jesus' humanity is so important here, because he is commanding his disciples to go and make more - go out and to continue his ministry. If he were not human but only divine, think about the great task his disciples might have felt that commission was, perhaps too great for any one person to accomplish. Jesus message was one of "do like me" and if his divinity overshadowed the fact that he was also human we may feel like we cannot actually "do like me"
We already see this defeatist attitude today when it comes to some of our larger societies problems. Churches sit back and don't take stands. People fail to stand up believing they are only one. Imagine the true excuses the disciples could have given in order to live into their fear and NOT actually follow Christ. If they didn't believe that they actually had it in them...and thus our all knowing God, sent the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit descends on Pentecost and thus the birth of our church is here. What a powerful message here from God. That God has faith in us humans - so much so that not only did we get Jesus to offer redemption but we got the Holy Spirit! Wow and now we are called to continue to spread this message. Not a message for only the one divinity but a message for all!
