Led by the Spirit: What DID Jesus DO?

By: Kristen Neighbarger Published on: 24/01/2024

As I’ve grown older and maybe a little wiser, I recognize that everyone in that room wanted the same thing, but they were going about it all wrong. They each wanted everyone else to experience the Holy Spirit, but they were so dead set on having the only right answer as to how to experience the Holy Spirit that I don’t think they would have recognized the Spirit if it had become a human and walked into the room. See, we spent way too much time in our church talking about the things we had to do to receive the Holy Spirit, but we didn’t talk about the guidance of or even the Spirit itself. It was almost as if we were taught that receiving the Spirit was enough–that was what was going to save us. The irony of this is that isn’t how Jesus approached the Spirit at all.