francis chan bible study on the book of James

This is especially true if you belong to a particular “camp” with a specific belief or bent. I even had a girl break up with me while I was in seminary because we believed differently about Him! It is not one of those issues that is easy to float over. I know people who have lost jobs at churches and Christian colleges because of their beliefs about the Holy Spirit. Whole denominations have been built around specific beliefs about the Holy Spirit. You would know that the Spirit led the first Christians to do unexplainable things, to live lives that didn’t make sense to the culture around them, and ultimately to spread the story of God’s grace around the world. Having reading the Scriptures outside the context of contemporary church culture, you would be convinced that the Holy Spirit is as essential to a believer’s existence as air is to staying alive. Chances are you’d be shocked (for a whole lot of reasons, but that is another story). But what if you grew up on a desert island with nothing but the Bible to read? Imagine being rescued after twenty years and then attending a typical evangelical church. Perhaps we’re too familiar and comfortable with the current state of the church to feel the weight of the problem. And many of them do not believe they can.

While no evangelical would deny His existence, I’m willing to bet there are millions of churchgoers across America who cannot confidently say they have experienced His presence or action in their lives over the past year. That’s why I have a book and a film on the subject. From my perspective, the Holy Spirit is tragically neglected and, for all practical purposes, forgotten. I received a lot of questions about why I titled the book The Forgotten God.

Why all of this emphasis on the Holy Spirit? Now you have a film from the BASIC series on the Holy Spirit. You wrote a book in 2009 on the Holy Spirit called The Forgotten God. Francis Chan, featured in the BASIC.HOLY SPIRIT film, talks about the Holy Spirit.

Francis chan bible study on the book of James