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The Holy Spirit in Mission: Prophetic Speech and Action in Christian Witness is unavailable, but you can change that!

The church has been called to participate in God’s mission in the world. But without a robust, biblical sense of the Spirit’s action, how can we be sure we’re fulfilling that call? Gary Tyra employs a biblical theology of the Holy Spirit to deepen and inform our understanding of life as the church, the people of God. Since the church’s mission to and into the world is both evangelistic and...

the Holy Spirit can be thought of as the eternal personification of the love that flows between the eternal Father and co-eternal Son (see Rom 5:5).45 Proceeding further still, we are specifically told that both the Father and the Son played a role in the sending of the Spirit into the world (Jn 14:26; 15:26).46 Commenting on the doctrine of the filioque (the Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son), theologian Donald Bloesch asserts not only that the filioque “lends support to the idea of
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