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When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit…” John 20:22
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit… Acts 2:4
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, spoke to them… Acts 4:8

At a recent wedding I was talking to a young woman who expressed serious spiritual confusion based on what she found herself experiencing vs. the theology (or lack of it) that she had grown up in church with. In a nutshell, she was experiencing a move of the Holy Spirit in her life, but her church experience had never prepared her for God acting this way.

That’s ok. God specializes in breaking out of the boxes we have Him in. But how is it that so many people like this young women…people who grew up in local churches with youth programs, sound teaching, etc… meet the work of the Holy Spirit and have no idea?

That question is answered by the ‘When?’ question. How has what has been learned over time affect what we currently think (positively and negatively)? How does failure to learn affect us when we face spiritual realities we’ve never considered? (more…)