Starting reading Forgotten God by Francis Chan tonight. I got it for FREE on Amazon for my Kindle App. It's a book about the Western Church and the Holy Spirit. Here's a few quotes...
"The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches an be explained apart from the presence of the Spirit of God."
"If we read and believed these accounts (the pentecost in Acts), we would expect a great deal of the Holy Spirit. He would not be a mostly forgotten member of the Godhead whom we occasionally giveaway nod of recognition to, which is what He has become in most American churches. We would expect our new life with the Holy Spirit to look dramatically different than our old life without him."
"And this is the question I just can't get around: if it's true that the Spirit of God dwells in us and that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, then shouldn't there be a huge difference between the person that has the Spirit of God living inside of him or her and the person who does not?"
This book seems so timely. The Holy Spirit IS our counselor until Christ returns. It was His power that raised Christ from the dead. It is this power that we have access to. Why do I need a book to remind me of this!?
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