HOLY
SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH

If you do not join in what the church is doing, you have no share in this Spirit. … For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the church and every kind of grace.

Irenaeus

The Spirit is given through the Word, through proclamation of the gospel and sacrament, through Word and sacrament, and through Baptism. Where the Word is, the Spirit is at work. The Spirit does its work on earth through the church.

Lutheran Book of Condord

The great heresy of the Church of the present day is unbelief in this Spirit.

George Macdonald

A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing.

C.H. Spurgeon

For the Holy Spirit did come on the day of Pentecost, and has never left his church.

John Stott