Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-096 (Devotional)

PENTECOST: REFLECTIONS

(From Christian Quotation Of the Day)

Every time we say, ‘I believe in the Holy Spirit,’ we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

… J. B. Phillips, Plain Christianity [1954]

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The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness. But the mere fact that the Holy Spirit’s first recorded action in the gospels is an expression of redeeming love should cause us to suspect a teaching which represents His work as primarily, if not solely, the sanctification of our own souls to the practical exclusion of His activity in us towards others. It is important to teach of Him as the Spirit of holiness; it is also important to teach of Him as the Spirit which in us labours for the salvation of men everywhere.

… Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World [1917]

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Let songs of praise fill the sky! Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down his Spirit from on high, According to his word.

The Spirit by his heavenly breath, New life creates within: He quickens sinners from the death Of trespasses and sin.

The things of Christ the Spirit takes, And shows them unto men; The fallen soul his temple makes, God’s image stamps again

Come, Holy Spirit, from above, With thy celestial fire: Come, and with flames of zeal and love Our hearts and tongues inspire.

… Thomas Cotterill (1779-1833)

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Christian Quotation of the Day – http://www.gospelcom.net/cqod CQOD Compilation Copyright 2002, Robert McAnally Adams, Curator