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The Bible describes the Holy Spirit as helper, comforter, counselor, and the one who empowers Christian living. In The New Covenant Ministry of the Holy Spirit, Larry Pettegrew explains how the Holy Spirit’s role in the lives of Christians is at the heart of one of the church’s most difficult and controversial issues. Pettegrew argues that the day of Pentecost changed the Holy Spirit’s role, but...

that a new organism, the church, had been formed and that its program would have to be completed before the Day of the Lord would come. “This Is That.” The Joel passage is directly appropriated by Peter and cited as a fulfillment of prophecy by the phrase “this is that.” New Testament speakers regularly use this promise-fulfillment construct to express fulfillment, as, for example, Peter’s “this is the stone” (Acts 4:11; quoting Ps. 118:22) and Stephen’s “this is that Moses” and “this is he, that
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