an interesting thing occurred this weekend. i was at church, and in our little sunday school class we were discussing the presence of God in our everyday life. we were using a pre-set curriculum, and it directed us to the Bible where we were supposed to look at Jesus's life, and how he stayed close to God while he was on earth.
what i found interesting was that we never read a thing about the Holy Spirit. how did Jesus's life on earth and his ministry become divorced from the Spirit's power? how is it that we somehow think that we can encounter God without the presence of the Spirit?
i always thought that it was the Spirit who enables us to understand Scripture, to hear the voice of God in our lives. i thought that the Spirit was the comforter, our advocate. i thought it was the Spirit that gives us gifts and does the refining and transforming work in our hearts and lives.
either i'm missing something, or we have a person missing from the Trinity.
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I am sure that you're right, Guamo. I know that in my old church there was even some negativity toward the Spirit because of the Pentecostal movement. After leaving there, I attended a church with a more balanced view, and I forgot that it was even an issue for people - until we were talking about this issue - which seems to be an area where the Spirit legitimately is active, and they didn't even mention him.
I've never understood why the church would meet this doctrine (that is fairly controversial) with silence. It seems to me like it would be a good idea to teach something - whatever you think the "right" thing is, rather than nothing...
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