Fellowship Group Notes from Sunday 8th September 2013

Come Holy Spirit 

The Holy Spirit and identity

Romans 8:1-17 

• Discuss how you feel as we begin this new sermon series on the Holy Spirit. Bemused, concerned, excited.

• The preacher and author Fancies Chan writes in his book The Forgotten God: 

If you or I had never been to a church and had read only the Old and New Testaments, we would have significant expectations of the Holy Spirit in our lives…

If we read and believed these accounts, we would expect a great deal of the Holy Spirit…

We would expect our new life with the Holy Spirit to look radically different from our old life without Him.

What is your experience of the Holy Spirit?

• How does the power of the Holy Spirit in your life help you to identify who you are?

• What expectations do you have of the Holy Spirit, in your own life and in our corporate life at St Mark’s?

Recommended book

The Prodigal Spirit

by Graham Tomlin