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An Evangelical Voice
Calling the Church back to the Upper Room in Preparation for Another Spiritual Awakening


Charles Colson has a new small group resource available that Christian Renewal recommends: 

CounterCultural Christians: Exploring a Christian Worldview with Charles Colson 
Grasp the underlying belief systems that impact how people view the world around them! Then dig into Scripture to guide your conclusions. This study will help group members learn how to develop a Christian worldview and transform culture.

If you'd like to learn more about this twelve-session interactive multimedia resource go to Group Publishing's website.  These studies will challenge Christians to understand the impact of cultural influences on their faith and explore the impact our worldview has on every area of life.

"Receive the Holy Spirit", the latest journal, can now be read here. An excerpt:

While faith in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ makes salvation a fact settled in heaven, it hasn't dawned on many believers that it is the inner working of the Holy Spirit that confirms it as spiritual reality. In studying the book of Romans we understand that believing the Gospel brings about a judicial change in the sinner, but our God of salvation seeks to make us conscious of this by giving us His Spirit.

Jesus spent most of His time with His disciples preparing them for their reception of the Holy Spirit. He knew that if they failed in this they could never advance His Kingdom to the ends of the earth. After His resurrection, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and "breathed on them," saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit." He exhaled (He "breathed on them"); He told them to inhale ("receive the Holy Spirit"). Really, as God the Father and God the Son breathe on us, we are to inhale (breathe in, receive, partake of) the Holy Spirit as the breath of God. The spiritual exercise the Risen Christ taught the disciples in the Upper Room was prophetic and preparatory to Pentecost. There the rushing mighty winds represented the breath and life of God and "they were all filled with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 2:4).

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Winter 2004
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