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    Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
    Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
    Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
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    Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

    Written by Francis Chan and Danae Yankoski

    Narrated by Francis Chan

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    A follow up to the profound message of Crazy Love, Pastor Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirit's direction in our lives. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateAug 20, 2009
    ISBN9781608145157
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    Francis Chan

    Francis Chan is the best-selling author of Crazy Love and the host of the BASIC.series. Francis is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California and the founder of Eternity Bible College. He also sits on the board of directors of Children’s Hunger Fund and World Impact. Francis now lives in Northern California with his wife, Lisa, and their four daughters and one son.

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    • 4/5
      This book was Important for me to read. It made me think about how all the things we as Christians want to do and be can only truly happen when we are connected to Christ...specifically His Holy Spirit. Not in a deep and difficult way but in a day by day way.

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    • 5/5
      Francis Chan is one of the great literally men after God who lives today. I hope he continues to chase God and help us to have a fresh view of biblical challenges.
    • 5/5
      This book challenged me to realize that my tripod of God (father/son/Holy Spirit) was missing a leg and therefore my relationship with God was lopsided and severely lacking. I am excited to see what God has for my life with a better relationship with the Trinity of our God. Thankyou for writing this book!
    • 5/5
      Highly recommend this book! Even better that the author read the book himself! ❤️
    • 5/5
      Sencillo, excelentes ejemplos al final de cada capitulo. Un libro retador con un mensaje Claro: Necesitamos anhelar, buscar extensamente y sin cansarnos la llenura del Espiritu Santo.
    • 5/5
      Great book, would recommend to anyone interested in learning more about the Holy Spirit, and God’s desire for our lives.
    • 5/5
      Really great book that will challenge you and your life before God. 100% recommend.
    • 5/5
      This book has challenged me to question and reevaluate my thinking, to examine my relationship with Holy Spirit. If you are ready to be challenged and inspired then this book is a must read/listen.
    • 5/5
      This book was definitely a reminder to be more in tune with the Holy Spirit.
    • 5/5
      God is 1 in 3 persons. It’s great to finally read a BIBLICAL view of the precious Holy Spirit and how He works in our lives...or tries to! This is beautifully written, with challenging questions and inspiring testimonies. I will definitely come back to this book!
    • 4/5
      If you’re looking for a theologically rich examination of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, then, this is not the book to read. However, if you’re looking to be powerfully challenged to live a life full of the Holy Spirt, following his leading, and filled with his power; then, that is what this book is for. It’s a powerful challenge to live in the power of the Spirit day to day. A tremendously convicting book that will change you.
    • 5/5
      This book has changed my life for the better! Praise God!!
    • 4/5
      Good! Yes I Liked the book a lot. Thank you.
    • 5/5
      Important book. Clear, helpful, desperately needed truths for the Western church today.
    • 5/5
      Well spoken, clearly stated and biblically accurate. He makes no assumptions and just highlights the forgotten parts of the Bible. Well done.
    • 5/5
      Always worth the time to listen to. Biblical advice for a counter cultural perspective.
    • 5/5
      Very powerful! Didn't know that the Holy spirit is a person
    • 5/5
      My 2nd time reading this book. Love it even more 5 years later.
    • 5/5
      An inspiring book based on God's word. A great reminder that we are to only be in the world not OF it
    • 5/5
      This is an easy read and great teaching on the Holy Spirit.
    • 5/5
      By God's grace and mercy, I was led to this recording. I must without fail live a Godly life. I am inspired and strengthened. I must listen again.
    • 5/5
      I think this book is very practical and honest. It encouraged and challanged me in my walk with God and what I can do for him.
    • 5/5
      I love reading Francis Chan's books. He writes with such an easy voice. It is like he is having a conversation with just you. His book Crazy Love changed the way I see my faith. I picked up Forgotten God because I wanted to learn about creating a relationship with the Holy Spirit. This book had a lot of insight and practical information and lessons. I appreciated reading about real people making powerful connections with the Spirit of God as well. This is a book I need to purchase.
    • 5/5
      Amazing, well done book! Listen now! You’ll love it.
    • 4/5
      Good based examples from bible and real life,
      I do recommend book
    • 5/5
      This is a dangerous book! Read it only if you dare!If you claim to be a Christian, this book could very well convict you, as it did me. Convict you of thinking or praying too much to God to reveal what He wants you to DO rather than praying to Him about who God wants you to BE . Do you wonder about what God's will is for you in a year? 2 years? What is God's 5-year plan for you? WHY? Why are you not seeking to understand God's will for you TODAY?This book will also remind you that Christians believe in a triune God, three persons - three co-EQUAL persons - manifested in one God. I know for me, as I read it and discussed it in a small group, I started to understand Chan's message more and more and realized that I had, perhaps unintentionally, excluded an equal focus on the Holy Spirit as I do on God the Father and Jesus the Son of God.Chan is not telling us we must change to a different faith tradition that may focus more on the Spirit. In fact, he specifically tells us such a change is not what he is suggesting. What he is teaching is that to fully have God's presence in our lives, we must seek out the Holy Spirit's guidance and presence in our lives as much as we seek out God the Father's and Jesus the Son's guidance and presence. After all, before Jesus left his physical life on earth, he gave a part of himself to his disciples and us in the form of the Spirit. For me, that has pushed me to not only pray specifically to God the Father and to God the Son, but also to the Holy Spirit every day.I really enjoyed the book. A couple in the group struggled a bit more with understanding that Chan's teaching is not in conflict with their Christian beliefs.I think that the traditions they grew up in simply did not focus on the Spirit as a co-equal. And that was the reason they struggled with Chan's teaching.I challenge you to read and discuss this book in a small group.
    • 5/5
      Francis Chan picks up the mantle of Bill Bright in helping the church form a biblical understanding of the way that the indwelling of the Holy Spirit should change us. This is a challenging book and you may or may not agree with everything (I didn't) but all believers do need to think through the things he is saying. Come Holy Spirit and fill your church!
    • 5/5
      When thinking of God, or praying to God, what is it that Christians usually have in their minds? Quite often the image is “God” as a somewhat generic supreme being, if God can be considered generic in any way. Another image is of God as “Father,” one where God is again supreme and also embodying all of the best qualities a person may think of in a parent, without having any of the human characteristics that are somewhat unsavory and may be found even among the best persons, such as fits of temper when exasperated. And there is always “Jesus” as the God to whom we pray. Jesus lived on earth as God’s divine Son, and lives today in heaven at “the right hand of the Father,” to cite the Apostles Creed. There are numerous Bible verses that instruct Christians to pray to, and through Jesus, so praying to Jesus is another easy image to hold in mind as we pray. But to be Christian is to also know that God has revealed himself as Triune, having three distinct persons of Father, Son and Spirit, and yet always being God. This last person of the Triune God, the Holy Spirit, is the subject of Francis Chan’s Forgotten God: Reversing our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit (Colorado Springs, CO: David Cook, 2009). Chan’s thesis is that the Holy Spirit is frequently neglected among Christians and the aim of his book is to help Christians understand the absolutely essential nature of the Spirit to being a follower of Jesus. He wants us to love the Spirit as deeply as any other aspect of God, including Jesus, and to be empowered to discern the presence and follow the lead of the Spirit in every aspect of our lives. Chan is a gifted preacher, with the ability to clearly express deep and powerful thoughts in ways that make his audience want to love and follow God more than anything else. His writing has a similar style, and in the seven chapters of this book he leads his readers to a greater understanding of who the Spirit is, what the Spirit does, and what the Spirit can do in the lives of Christians today, should they take the time to listen and follow God’s voice as made known in the Spirit. Each chapter addresses a way in which the Spirit impacts Christian living, such as why Jesus alone is insufficient, or what a personal relationship with the Spirit might look like for the person who doesn’t yet have one. Each chapter also includes a brief story of someone that Chan knows who is living in a way that demonstrates the Spirit at work in their life. Chan believes that many Christians often look to God to meet their own needs, rather than seeking God and submitting themselves to God’s purposes. He writes, “[God] wants us to know that His gift of the Holy Spirit is really not for our own pleasure or purposes. The Spirit is meant to lead us toward holiness. The Spirit is here with us to accomplish God’s purposes, not ours.” (93) It is the Spirit, living within Christians, that guides, strengthens, and comforts Christians for a life of joyful submission to God in the world, come what may. I really liked this book and thought it was a good follow-up to his preceding book, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God. In Crazy Love Chan wrote about the greatness and goodness of God, a God so wonderful that, in faith, we should be head-over-heels in love with him. In Forgotten God we are shown that it is the Spirit active in us that makes that type of love of God possible. Forgotten God ends with this heartfelt word of prayer, “Come, Holy Spirt, come. We don’t know exactly what that means and looks like for each of us yet, in the particular places You’ve called us to inhabit. But, nonetheless, whatever it means, we ask for Your presence. Come, Holy Spirit, come.”
    • 5/5
      Typically the Holy Spirit is one of those “forgotten subjects.” Like tithing or faith exhibited through works, it’s not a popular subject from either pulpit or book. So if anyone was going to find the “lost morsel” and bring it to light, it’s Francis Chan.Right now, I don’t even know how to describe Francis - he was a pastor of a local LA church, I suppose now he is a book author, a husband, a father, a Calvinist, a public speaker, a prophet, a sounding board for resolute doctrine and a very funny and likable guy.In Forgotten God, Chan makes a case that the true “power” and “tapability” (my own word) of the Holy Spirit is often left unaccessed, by both Christians and the Church. Chan writes,“You are most likely familiar with the fruit passage in Galatians 5 which says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, (and) self-control…” You may even have the list memorized. But look over those traits right now and ask yourself if you posses each to a supernatural degree. Do you exhibit more kindness and faithfulness than the Mormons you know? Do you have more self-control than your Muslim friends? More peace than Buddhists? More Joy than atheists? if GOD truly lives in you, shouldn’t you expect to be different from everyone else?”Francis is one of those voices who can look at scripture and find the “obvious” point we have all been missing – he finds some prophetic way to see something new in the same text we have all been reading.Chan tells a story about how two Jehovah’s Witness knocked on his door one day to share their message – Francis “gently” told them that he found their message offensive because they believe that Michael the arc-angel is also Jesus. Francis shared that Jesus is so much more than an angel, to which the JW’s assured him that Jesus/Michael is the only one. Francis then read Daniel 10:13 to them that says “Michael was only one of many chief princes.” Francis went on to say that he could not believe that honest bible study had led to their conclusions. He accused them of being spoon fed and instructed them to read the bible for themselves.And I think I would offer the same advice, but to all of us…again Francis Chan“”I left that conversation feeling a bit proud of myself because I stumped them and got them to question their beliefs. Yet I couldn’t help but wonder whether I was fair to them. Had I ever sat down with the Bible and sought after its self-evident truth? Or had a passively ingested what I heard from other people, much like my front-door visitors?”Forgotten God will challenge you to beak open the word and unlock the truth that the power of God resides in you – and that power and gifting is available to you today. And if you do not possess it to a ‘super natural degree’ may you hunger and seek after it all the more.
    • 4/5
      Frances Chan gathers together a nice primer on the Holy Spirit. Top clips from the book are as follows:forget what God wants for our life and concentrate on what God wants you to do right now (dwelling on God's plan for us in the future often enables us to neglect God's call NOW.)sometimes we don't feel the HS because our life is too safe; or too louddon't let the church normalize, mellow, or institutionalize you