This weekend I am beginning a short series on the Holy Spirit. As Pentecostals, we are sometimes better demonstrating than teaching on this subject. It needs to be both.

There is more that is stirring. What the Spirit is stirring will need to be spoken more “in house” (meaning more TO the Body of Christ) than “out here” (meaning broadcasting it all over the web and take tremendous chances of being violently misunderstood). Of course, misunderstanding within the Body is always a high possibility as well!

I want to leave this challenge, though. The power of the Spirit is not just about the miraculous. (But I want to be clear: it IS about the miraculous). It’s just beyond that as well. It is living out the principles of the Kingdom of God in a increasingly hostile world. It will be something that will call us, as American Christians, to tougher choices in the days ahead. That is the stirring that is going on in my heart.