people and things to be themselves through Jesus Christ. We are called to proclaim Jesus Christ, not, or at least not in the same way, to proclaim the Spirit—and that is perhaps where some Pentecostalist emphases are wrong. The Spirit is the one who enables us to present Jesus Christ in our teaching and to live in his way, so that there is a sense in which it is truer to say that we speak from than about the Spirit. And yet we do need to know from whom we are speaking. If the Spirit is a person,
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