Baptism with the Holy Spirit

“A leader has to watch every word he or she says and quickly learns that you can’t go through life without a few critics, some well deserved” (pg. 5), this quote as some of the beginning words from MacDonald truly shows that a leader has responsibilities to uphold to. I found it interesting that he showed these responsibilities are not only external, but internal as well. Many do not realize the internal battles that leaders in ministry go through, and in order for leaders to handle a situation…

boundaries. He also talks about how even in Jesus’ own genealogy there is a blending of Jews and Gentiles. “The Holy Spirit equipped the apostles to bring together the first multi-lingual, multi-cultural mega-church and blended this variety into a single faith community” (“Biblical Obedience”). The church that Sano is referring to in this quote is the church at Antioch. From what the Holy Spirit did with the church in the New Testament, we can clearly see what God’s heart is regarding the…

said that he is saved, but in reality he was not saved. Hughes makes in explanation in the story when he attends his aunt’s church by putting on a false disguise in front of her and the entire congregation that he envisioned Jesus and receives the Holy Spirit. Hughes expresses his concerns that his church family had a high expectation of receiving Christ as his Savior. Hughes makes it known by his own experience that others force Jesus into his heart, because he has to seek the purpose of his…

Is San Manuel a Christian? Being a Christian depends on one’s faith in the Holy Trinity. Though we cannot peer into the mind or heart to see if one is a true believer, Christian faith can be viewed in one’s daily life. Christians are expected to follow the beatitudes, have a personal relationship with God, trust in the Bible, and perform good deeds. Though these actions are not what makes one a Christian, they illustrate that one is in fact a believer in Christ. In Miguel de Unamuno’s San…

Ministry # 2 With which two people did you connect & which cards were used? I have used the cards of the picture with my father today and started too connected with my father where he sat in his spiritual walk with Christ Jesus. The one thing he told me about in his life is how God used him as a vessels to his bothers and sisters around him. He told me that when he was growing up as a younger man he was very independent person to his mother and sisters and brothers. My father almost died on…

writers seem to be intoned with the will of God. These two writings could be easily mistaken for similar stories. In the simulations Paul a man enlightens to tell the good shared the good word of God. The only differences I can point out are the two spirits of light and darkness governing the of the world while in Ephesians it speaks that God is the cornerstone with Jesus Christ sitting at the right hand of the father Other differences is that Paul states only by the blood are we saved. In the…

heaven, but you also need to be able to send yourself to other places, while being with him at all times, but at the same time not being with him, or your son self… And do not even get me started on the Holy Spirit because that is the red headed step child that everyone ignores because the Holy Spirit really makes no sense. I think all of this is okay though, I am not really to truly understand what any of this means, but I still love to think about…

“O eternal Word, Word of my God, I wish to spend my life listening to You, I wish to make myself wholly teachable so as to learn all from you… O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, descend upon me so that there comes to be in my soul as it were an incarnation of the word… And you, O Father, stoop down towards Your poor little creature, cover her with Your shadow, see in her only Your Beloved Son in Whom You have been well pleased.” -Excerpts from a prayer of Bl. Elizebeth of the…

Evangelism is the spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness. When practiced by Biblical standards/method, it is ‘supposed’ to be an act of persuasion using reason, evidence, scripture and the Holy Spirit to show non believers the Gospel. This is confusing to me, because it would seem today that every Church of every denomination, based on this definition alone, is Evangelist. Every church you go to has their priest, pastor, preacher, what have you. Every sermon…

Right after this filling of the Holy Spirit, Peter was filled with boldness and preached! His cowardness that lead to denying Jesus changed to boldness which gave him the power to preach. The result of the Holy Spirit filling Peter resulted in 3,000 people becoming Christians; “Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day” Acts 2:41. What are some key factors of the Holy Spirit? First, the Holy Spirit empowers God’s Church for the…