This page's links : * Who Is the Holy Spirit? * the Holy Spirit As God * the Spirit of God in the Hebrew Scriptures * Spirited QuotesOther core Spirit matters: * A Noun That Acts Like A Verb * The Spirit Calls You. * the Spirit in you, and in your life. * the Holy Spirit Gives Gifts. * What the Spirit Grows Within You * Not Here on a Whim. * Speaking through the Prophets. * the Holy Spirit as revealer. | More on the Holy Spirit:Why Our Spirit-Talk Seems So Vague
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receiving the Holy Spirit is the way that those who already believe in Christ are empowered to serve Him. .... It's more important to focus on how one lives the Spirit-filled life than on a rigid formula for receiving it.... Receiving the Spirit in the Lucan sense is not a one-time event, but an ongoing way of life."
------ Larry Christenson (attrib.)
"the Spirit has his own existence and personal function in the inner life of God and the economy of salvation: his task is to bring about the unity of the human race in the Body of Christ, but he also imparts to this unity a personal, and hence diversified, character."
------ John Meyendorff, *The Orthodox Church*, p.197
"The work of the Spirit is the bringing to be of the vision of God....the capacitating of persons to 'see visions' and 'dream dreams'. .... The birth of the Church is the beginning of the End. ..... The Kingdom of God as the miracle of ocular newness when 'the blind see' makes its impact on history in the creation of a visionary community . [[The tongues were]] the language of the world to come... Therefore in this birth of the Church, the risen and ascended Lord takes to himself a Body on earth with eyes opened by the Spirit to see the future.
------ Gabriel Fackre, *A Christian Story*, p.157-8, The Descended Spirit
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