Yet in a manner similar to the other themes we have explored, there are crucial theological issues that affect our experience. Jesus promises that we will receive the Holy Spirit (14:16) and then goes on to promise that he and the Father will indwell his followers (14:23). What are the implications of these thoughts? (a) We have seen that God himself was in Christ restoring and loving the world. Christ was not a courier sent on a mission to change God’s mind; Christ came from the Father to express