Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Luke and Acts-- The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit was poured out onto the church so that the church can have Christ’s power inside of them to go and make disciples, teaching them to obey Jesus’ command, with all the authority in them from Christ. The Holy Spirit connects to the Missio Dei because that is part of the entire thing—God sending his Son to then send the Holy Spirit, to then collectively send out the Church as a whole. If it wasn’t for the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of Christians that it would be up to us by ourselves to make disciples. With The Holy Spirit we have no reason to hold back, no reason to fear. “Christ, who has all authority, lives inside of us and is inviting us to participate in furthering the Kingdom of God.” The power that raised Christ from the grave lives IN US. The Holy Spirit is our helper and our counselor. 

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