More: How You Can Have More of the Spirit When You Already Have Everything in Christ
Christ promised his disciples that they would receive power when the Holy Spirit came on them, and that they would be his witnesses across the world. When the Spirit did come to them in tongues of fire, thousands believed in Christ and were saved. That same miracle, that same Spirit, is alive in us today.so why are all of us-from the evangelical to the charismatic-so desperate for an intimate encounter with God? Why don't we feel like the new creations we know we are?
Pastor and theologian Simon Ponsonby believes that the hunger we feel is a desire for more of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Many Christins have emphasized the experience of the Spirit and neglected the Word, while others have emphasized the Word and neglected the Spirit. Either way, we've become so accustomed to living in the shallow waters of Christianity that we've forgotten the depth of that promised power, and the depth of the love that gave this power to us.
In More, Simon invites you to journey with him into the deep waters of God's love. While both biblical and practical, what he says also has the power to inspire in you a new love and a new understanding of everything we've been given in Christ. Are you ready? This journey may not be comfortable or easy, but it will bring you more joy and more of God than you can even imagine.
Top Highlights
“In the New Testament, baptism is always in the Spirit and never of the Spirit as the Pentecostals often say. Nor is it a noun, ‘the baptism of the Spirit,’ but always a verb, ‘being baptized in the Spirit.’” (source)
“John’s baptism was a baptism in water into repentance; Jesus’ baptism is a baptism in the Spirit into the one body of Christ.” (source)
“I believe that, in light of the fact that Scripture is clear that no one can become a Christian without the Spirit (John 16:8; Titus 3:5f.; John 3:5f.; Rom. 8:9f.; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 John 3:24), and that there is only one baptism in the Spirit, which is also baptism into Christ and without which we are not in Christ (1 Cor. 12:13), then the third option is the most likely, and we should see the Samaritan believers’ undeniable twofold initiation as unique.” (source)
“All Christians, by faith in the finished work of Christ, have drunk of that living water and have been baptized in the Spirit, into Christ. But many have no theology, expectancy, or desire to know the Spirit’s power for service, the deep emotional and existential immediacy with God, or the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit.” (source)
“Thus 1 Corinthians 12:13 speaks of ‘baptism in one Spirit’ and not ‘baptism by one Spirit,’ which, incidentally, we have all experienced.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : More: How You Can Have More of the Spirit When You Already Have Everything in Christ
- Author: Ponsonby, Simon
- Publisher: David C Cook
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781434700360