How is the power of the Holy Spirit within the Christian community related to divine activity in the world as a whole? Does the wind of the Spirit that blows within the church blow elsewhere in the world? There are those who almost instinctively sense that the Spirit is moving about in all levels of human activity seeking to unlock many doors and seeking to resolve many of our human dilemmas. In John 3:8 Jesus talks about the wind (pneuma) as the Spirit and that the wind "blows where it wills." This suggests that the Spirit moves freely in human affairs, unknown, unseen, and at times mysterious. Thus, the most important question of all is: Where is the Holy Spirit now working? These are fair questions for us to consider.
Leonard Sweet asks if it is appropriate to consider if God had the …