After Pentecost

There are almost 300 million Pentecostal Christians in the world. (Those who believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit are still active in the Church, and live accordingly.) That’s over 12% of the estimated number of Christians around the world. Yet they are routinely publicly maligned and ridiculed by influential non-Pentecostal church leaders who have never experienced the gifts of the Holy Spirit as described in the New Testament, but instead insist that the gifts ceased with the death of the first apostles.
On the other side are the Pentecostal ministries that attract ridicule by clearly misrepresenting the Holy Spirit and making a “show” of operating in the gifts including false healings, false signs and wonders, and false prophecies.
Concerned that both extremes blaspheme and grieve God the Holy Spirit, and dishonour Christ, Colin Norris undertook this objective examination of the majority of verses and passages in the New Testament that mention the Holy Spirit, with the intention of separating the errors of doctrine, tradition, academia and story telling, from biblical truth. What he clearly saw, and hopes the reader will also clearly see, is a vital aspect of the Church that has been widely ignored for a very, very long time.
Colin’s hope for this book is that it will help non-Pentecostals welcome the tangible presence of the Holy Spirit into their lives and churches; help Pentecostals correct their hyper-spirituality so they can experience the genuine presence of the Holy Spirit; and heal much of the disunity in the Church stemming from this issue, with the end result being that all Christians may grow into the fullness of the character of Christ, fully equipped for every good work.