Description

SPIRITUALITY

This book, gentle in tone but powerful in impact, is based on the Bible and built around the experience of God’s Spirit—that of the author and the thousands to whom he has given retreats and conferences in India, Southeast Asia, and the United States. What distinguishes Fr. Rayan’s book from the many recently written about the Spirit is the author’s insistence that God sends his Spirit to us not only to comfort but to disturb; to lead us to change not only the structures of our hearts, but the unjust structures of society. The Spirit is not only dove but also fire and wind; He comes not to put us to sleep but to awaken us to re-create our earth.

This book is filled with freshness, life and fire. Samuel Rayan, the liberationist and charismatic, comes alive in it with his dreams and visions.

 

CONTENTS

Preface

1. Beginnings: The Creator Spirit

2. The Promise of the Father

3. Spirit-Filled People

4. He Who Baptizes with the Holy Spirit

5. Dreams and Visions

6. The New Thrust

7. Life

8. Freedom and Truth

9. Mission and the Holy Spirit

10. Depths

11. Crisis

12. Come, Holy Spirit