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What About The Holy Spirit? Day of Pentecost from the book Together In Christ Sermons and Prayers For the Christian Year Erskine White John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 |
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Many of the pentecostal and charismatic churches place entirely too much emphasis on the Holy Spirit. In fact, the Holy Spirit seems the only part of the triune God some of these churches pay attention to. In their worship, their preaching and their faith, they nearly abandon God the Father and Christ the Son in favor of the Spirit, to the point where Christian faith is reduced to a mere matter of what makes you feel good by the "Spirit." Without the doctrine and discipline of God the Father and Christ the Son, many of the so-called "spirit-filled" churches end up with a very sloppy theology which is self-serving and unbiblical to its core.
On the liberal hand, many other churches place entirely too little emphasis on the Holy Spirit. God the Father and Christ the Son are the only parts of God they pay attention to and they nearly leave the Spirit out altogether. Their religion is just a "head ...
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