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After decades of writing commentaries on Paul’s letters, Gordon Fee began to see a disconnect between how Paul describes the local church and how the church operates today, something is skewed. His concern boiled down to how churches understood the person and role of the Holy Spirit. Fee concluded that the contemporary Western church, Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal, is missing the point of the...

In sum: For Paul, the Spirit is not merely an impersonal force or influence or power. The Spirit is none other than the fulfillment of the promise that God himself would once again be present with his people. The implications of this are considerable, not only in terms of Paul’s understanding of God and the Spirit (the concern of the next two chapters), but in terms of what it means for us individually and corporately to be the people of God (the concern of chs. 6–14). The Spirit is God’s own personal
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