Francis Chan recently released his book Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit. Francis Chan is senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California. He is also the founder of Eternity Bible College and serves on the board of Children's Hunger Fund.
In this book, Chan does a great job of explaining the theology of the Holy Spirit, the importance of a relationship with the indwelling Spirit and finally the daily surrendering of our own desires to the action of the Holy Spirit. The book is saturated with biblical references about the Holy Spirit to back up his claims. At the same time, it is short and easy to read with stories from his life and others’. By the end of this book you will be facing one of the most important questions of your life: Are you willing to surrender your life to the Holy Spirit? This book is a call to change the way you think, move, and breathe, allowing the Spirit to permeate every area of your life. We are called to suffer with Christ. As the Holy Spirit guides us he asks us to risk our lives taking us to the edge of trust, that the glory of God might be revealed.
“And like our Savior who poured out His life and blood so we have reason to rejoice, we were made to lay down our lives and give until it hurts. We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving of ourselves because we were made to do these things. It is when we live like this that the Spirit of God moves and acts in and through us in ways that on our own we are not capable of. This is our purpose for living. This is our hope. ‘And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us’ (Rom. 5:5).” (96)
