__Francis Chan__ has been a pastor for over thirty years. He is a New York Times–bestselling author of several books, including Crazy Love, Letters to the Church, and Until Unity. He and his wife, Lisa, have been married nearly thirty years and coauthored You and Me Forever. Currently, Francis and his family split their time between ministry and church planting in Northern California and Asia.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and ... the Holy Spirit. We pray in the name of all three, but how often do we live with an awareness of only the first two? As Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to send the Holy Spirit—the Helper—so that we could be true and living witnesses for Christ. Unfortunately, today's church has admired the gift but neglected to open it.  
  
 Breakthrough author Francis Chan rips away paper and bows to get at the true source of the church's power—the Holy Spirit. Chan contends that we've ignored the Spirit for far too long, and we are reaping the disastrous results. Thorough scriptural support and compelling narrative form Chan's invitation to stop and remember the One we've forgotten, the Spirit of the living God.

A follow up to the profound message of Crazy Love, Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirit's direction in our lives.

Francis Chan

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Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

About the Cover

1-I've Got Jesus Why Do I Need the Spirit

1-Joni Eareckson Tada

2-What Are You Afraid Of

2-Domingo and Irene Garcia

3-Theology of the Holy Spirit 101

3-Francis Schaeffer

4-Why Do You Want Him

4-Esther Ahn Kim

5-A Real Relationship

5-Thomas and Jen Yun

6-Forget About His Will for Your Life

6-Dave Phillips

7-Supernatural Church

7-The Final Biography

Afterword

Notes

About the Coauthor

Excerpt from Crazy Love

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From the author of Crazy Love comes Francis Chan's appeal for the Church to rediscover the importance of the Holy Spirit.

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“From my perspective,” writes Francis Chan, “the Holy Spirit is tragically neglected and, for all practical purposes, forgotten.” So he sets out in this book to convey truths about the Spirit that are “obvious, neglected and crucial” and to draw the reader into “deeper communion with the Spirit and greater experience of his power and presence in your life.” He encourages us to “listen to and obey the Spirit’s leading in your own life.” By his own admission, Chan doesn’t set out to write a ‘scholarly theological’ volume. The chapter he does devote to the ‘theology of the Holy Spirit’ contains no surprises, but it helpfully unpacks biblical teaching on the Spirit. After each of the 7 chapters comes a biography, designed to challenge and inspire us, sometimes featuring a famous Christian (Joni Eareckson Tada and Francis Schaeffer), more often a less well-known one. The last of the seven is actually about the reader. “What would be written here?” muses Chan. Well, ask God, we read, to “have his Spirit work so mightily in you that it would make for an amazing biography”! Sometimes books on this kind of subject proclaim an extremist theology, and leave me wallowing in guilt and a sense of failure or punch-drunk under a bombardment of miracle stories from a self-promoting author who seems to have all the answers. But this one didn’t, and I could read it without those unpleasant side effects. I appreciated that.

Forgotten God

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