People of the Spirit

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Living within this tension, he says, guards against overbalancing either towards triumphalism or defeatism. Another constant theme of the book is the communal and relational nature of life in the Spirit. Salvation occurs individually, but is defined as entry into the people of God. His exegesis of the fruit of the Spirit from Galatians 5 — again thoroughly relational — makes the book worthwhile on its own. Similarly, Fee emphasises that spiritual gifts were almost always expressed with the focus on the community of the people of God rather than the individual.

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Personally, reading Paul, the Spirit and the People of God has given me a more fully rounded, all of life theology of the Holy Spirit. I greatly appreciated the integration of various topics which are usually treated in isolation. Oct 25, Brandon H. This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of the Holy Spirit! Having spent most of my life in Charismatic circles, hearing sermons and references to the Holy Spirit has been a regular experience for me.

But no one has laid out the case as well as Fee has in just how central the Holy Spirit is to Paul's gospel and to the Christian life. The heart of the gospel is Jesus Christ and Him crucified but the Holy Spirit plays an incredibly important and monumental role in This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of the Holy Spirit! The heart of the gospel is Jesus Christ and Him crucified but the Holy Spirit plays an incredibly important and monumental role in the gospel.

Sadly, He has been overlooked and ignored by far too many believers, and the more traditional churches. This important work will benefit all who have ears to hear. A couple quotes I'll share - "The plea of this study, therefore, is not that of a restorationist, as if we really could restore 'the primitive church,' whatever that means and whatever that would look like. Gordon Fee compresses his page tome "God's Empowering Presence" into an appr page book for mere mortals like me, and I must say it is the best treatment of the subject of the Holy Spirt via a vis the Christian life and the church.

Every church tradition will get its fair share of correction, from Penteco-charismatics to evangelical to Anabaptist. If your theology is driven by the more recent rediscovery of the kingdom of God as breaking forth into the present, you will find t Brilliant!!! If your theology is driven by the more recent rediscovery of the kingdom of God as breaking forth into the present, you will find this book helps you appreciate the need for the Holy Spirit even more. If you relegate everything about the kingdom of God to a future heaven, get ready for your world to be rocked.

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And if you're are waking up to the devastating impact of individualism in Christendom, you will learn much to encourage you from Fee. This is now my go-to book on the Holy Spirit. I cannot recommend it more. I was lent this book by someone in my church who was convinced that this was the best thing she'd read on the Holy Spirit.

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After finishing Gordon D. Fee's book, I am also of the same opinion. Fee's book on the Holy Spirit is explained from Paul's perspective. His choice to center his discussion around what Paul had to say about the third person of the Trinity is helpful and manageable as opposed to a full discussion of what the entire New Testament has to say about the Holy Spirit. But more th I was lent this book by someone in my church who was convinced that this was the best thing she'd read on the Holy Spirit. But more than being manageable, Fee's choice to stick to what Paul says is surprising.

So often, Paul is reduced to his views on justification, leading us to wonder if Paul ever spoke of anything else; it initially seemed, to me, that for someone to take up the task of writing an entire book on Paul's view of the Spirit, one would be at a loss for material. As Fee states in his introduction, "one reads Paul poorly who does not recognize that for him the presence of the Spirit, as an experienced and living reality, was the crucial matter for Christian life, from beginning to end" xiii.

While I was surprised by a variety of ideas within the book, Fee's fourth chapter on the Spirit and the Trinity was the most surprising.

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While there is a scholarly hesitance to do New Testament criticism with the help of "later fourth century Nicene theology," Fee embraces the doctrine of the Trinity. That being said, Paul is a pastor and doesn't have the luxury of "purely reflective theology" Rather, Paul's trinitarian theology is experienced, "and then expressed Fee wants Christians to possess this experience as well, as opposed to being what he calls "practical binitarians" It is also worth noting that Fee, coming from a Pentecostal tradition, waits until the second last chapter of his book to discuss speaking in tongues.

Even more surprising is how brief his discussion of this gift is. Examples like this lead me to agree with those like Wendy Murray who say that Fee's "discussion about the Holy Spirit After being lent this book, I do not want to give it back. I highly recommend this book for anyone seriously interested in who the Holy Spirit is. Another book that should be on the required reading list for Christians!

Fee opens with a concise evaluation of the problem: The Holy Spirit is in our creeds, but do we know Him? Do we know his role in the Trinity, our personal life, and in our communal life? This is not a breezy read. It's approximately pages, but I found that I could only do a chapter or so at each sitting in order to properly absorb what I was reading. I also found it helpful to look up every scripture reference as they ca Another book that should be on the required reading list for Christians!

I also found it helpful to look up every scripture reference as they came up in the text, which significantly adds to the reading time! The effort is well worth it however, in order to benefit from Fee's rigorous investigation of Paul's perspective of the Holy Spirit. I should mention that this book is the very condensed version of Fee's other book, God's Empowering Presence, which is over pages long and carefully shows each text's exegesis. Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God is a hugely useful book because it makes the information gleaned from God's Empowering Presence available to more readers in lay terms.

Another benefit is that you can read the condensed version, but don't have to take Fee's word for any of the conclusions he draws.

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If any questions or doubt arise, one can cross reference God's Empowering Presence to see how Fee arrived at his conclusions, and then decide for yourself. Fee also references other writers who have had opposing views to his conclusions, and so provides a bibliography against which to check his work. Beyond that, I found his conclusions to be both sound and insightful, and the topic certainly worthwhile.

I would recommend this book as a must read. Jun 10, Frank Peters rated it really liked it. This is an excellent and worthwhile book, that reminds me in content, not style of NT Wright, yet predates him. Fee is discussing the theology practical and theoretical of the Holy Spirit. The book starts very slowly and drying, such that I wondered if I was going to be able to get through it.

The introduction I found especially dry. But, after chapter one, the book gets much more interesting and useful. This book fits in the highly unusual category of discussing charismatic issue This is an excellent and worthwhile book, that reminds me in content, not style of NT Wright, yet predates him. This book fits in the highly unusual category of discussing charismatic issues positively from both a scholarly and practical level, rather than being mostly emotive and intellectually weak.

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The book seems to be a condensed, more accessible version of a much longer book by the author on the same topic entitled: I would recommend the book to any non-cessationist who is interested in better understanding the doctrine of the Holy Spirit from an intellectual, practical, and experiential perspective. But, I would give the warning about getting through the introduction and first chapter. Feb 03, Smooth Via rated it really liked it. Joe Nickell , writing in the Skeptical Inquirer , observed the use of slaying in the Spirit during a Benny Hinn healing crusade in He compared the practice to hypnosis , writing that participants "merely engage in a form of role-playing that is prompted by their strong desire to receive divine power as well as by the influence of suggestion that they do so In short, they behave just as if 'hypnotized.

Beginning with the First Great Awakening that impacted Protestant Europe as well as Britain's American colonies in the eighteenth century, bodily movements became a prominent and controversial part of Protestant revivalism. Supporters of the revivals within various denominations including Presbyterians , Congregationalists , Baptists and Methodists argued that trembling, groaning, screaming and falling to the ground "as dead" were signs of divine power in those who were becoming aware of their own sinfulness.

This bodily agitation, as well as the problem of sin and guilt, was resolved through a conscious conversion experience , which was marked by peace and joy. John Wesley , the founder of Methodism, considered falling down and other bodily movements to be natural not supernatural human responses to the supernatural "testimony" or "witness" of the Holy Spirit in conversion. Occasionally, Wesley attributed bodily movements to Satan 's attempt at disrupting the conversion process, but at other times, he described bodily movements as natural human responses to God's love.

Finney also recorded similar behavior. In the twentieth century, "prostrate trance" became chiefly associated with Pentecostalism and its offshoots. Historian Grant Wacker argues that early Pentecostals replaced the liturgies and sacraments of traditional churches with the "disciplined use of ecstasy", including the regular occurrence of slaying in the Spirit.

Regarding the sacramental undertones of slaying in the Spirit, Wacker writes:. In those situations Christ's physical death and resurrection was re-embodied—not just reenacted but literally re-embodied—night after night, before the very eyes of believers and nonbelievers alike. In one account after another we read that prostrate worshipers covered the floor. The stories sometimes stated and often implied that no one was left standing, which suggests that prostration gained a ritualistic significance comparable, perhaps, to kneeling or genuflecting in liturgical church traditions.

The frequency of slaying in the Spirit and the importance that Pentecostals placed on it decreased over time as Pentecostals rose to the ranks of the middle class and attempted to shed the stereotype of being " Holy Rollers " a derogatory term derived from instances of people literally rolling in the aisles when baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God

Slaying in the Spirit saw a resurgence during the s and s due to the influence of the charismatic movement , which disseminated Pentecostal beliefs and practices among mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics. During the s, it experienced another surge in visibility due to the influence of John Wimber , an evangelical pastor and founder of the Vineyard Movement.

Michael Brown quotes a number of scriptures which he claims support the practice of being slain in the Spirit.