I was amused, if a bit sadly amused, at the cartoon that I saw in an issue of The Lutheran magazine. It shows a man leaping up from his pew in the middle of a worshiping congregation. He is waving his arms in the air. His mouth is open with a shout of joy and glee. And beside him, his wife is frantically trying to pull him back into his seat, and she is saying: "Okay, so you feel the Spirit, but not here in this Worship Service."

That’s about the way it is with us, isn’t it, the main line denominations outside of what we sometimes disparagingly label the "Pentecostal Sects"? We are perfectly willing to talk about God the Father, our Creator and Preserver. We certainly have a great deal to say about Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior; but when it comes to the work and the power of the Holy Sp…