Forgotten God

So I finished reading Forgotten God by Francis Chan. I am not really good at reviews, so this will be brief. This book gave the best introduction to the Holy Spirit that I have ever read other than the Bible itself. Chan explained the role of the HS in great, understandable detail. Along with even better understanding of the Trinity. The fact that the HS is grieved when we commit the "littlest" of sins is very humbling, and should in fact automatically cause us to really think about what we are doing. Here are some quotes from the book that really impacted me:

"Nowhere in scripture do I see “balanced life with a little bit of God added in” as an ideal for us to emulate.   Yet when I look at our churches this is exactly what I see:  a lot of people who have added Jesus to their lives.   People who have in a sense asked Him to join them on their life journey and follow them wherever they feel they should go, rather than following Him as we are commanded. The God of the universe is not something we can just add to our lives and keep on as we did before.   The Spirit who raised Christ from the dead is not someone we can just call on when we want a little extra power in our lives.  Jesus Christ did not die in order to follow us, He died and rose again so that we could forget everything else and follow Him to the cross, to true Life."


"The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something that you wouldn't normally want or choose to do....The Holy Spirit will mold you into the person you were made to be."

"God wants the praise for what we do in our lives. But if we never pray audacious, courageous prayers, how can He answer them? If we never follow Him to positions where we need Him, how can He show up and make His presence known?"

He also listed the different roles of the HS and ways that we should be accessing the HS in our daily lives. As Christians we do have the power to make it through whatever God has for us, but we don't even seem to utitlize it properly. We should be praying to the HS daily for His guidance, direction, and the strength to carry on in a world that seems ultimately more powerful than we could ever be on our own.



Thanks for listening


-KM