Some years back I was invited to Rustenberg in South Africa to preach a series of sermons during Pentecost. In preparation for that series, I landed upon one of my favorite quotations about the Holy Spirit and made it central to the sermon series. I found the quotation to be from my doctoral supervisor at the University of Nottingham, James D. G. Dunn: The Spirit of God “transcends human ability and transforms human inability.” When I wrote down the quotation in order to use it as an important
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