my life and ministry. In the early years of my ministry, I served as state chairman of evangelism of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. Though limited in my understanding of the Holy Spirit but convinced of His primacy in evangelism, I often preached on the Holy Spirit, and my brothers in the convention referred to me as “The Holy Spirit Preacher.” Unfortunately, the Holy Spirit, at that time, was a “strange” doctrine in the minds of some brothers, belonging only to the Pentecostals, so