The Holy Spirit and You: A Guide to the Spirit-Filled Life
Overview
Offering a look inside the charismatic experience, this book, like none other, has been instrumental in helping countless individuals understand and live the Spirit-filled life. Dennis and Rita Bennett have provided an excellent introduction to the person of the Holy Spirit as well as His power. Hailed as the key text on the effective and sound use of God’s supernatural gifts, this book has changed the lives of millions of people throughout the world. In 1985, it was chosen by the Christian Booksellers Convention of England as one of the significant books published in the last 25 years. The Holy Spirit and You uses scriptural references to clearly explain the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The Bennetts will guide you in your study of God’s supernatural gifts where you can experience afresh the miraculous power and manifestations of the Holy Spirit.
Top Highlights
“In this way, Jesus solved the problem of our guilt that was keeping us from the Father, and when He died and rose again, the way was open for the Father to send the Holy Spirit, through Whom God’s life was able to come and live in us.” (Page 6)
“Didn’t you receive the Holy Ghost since you believed?’ (Acts 19:2). Again we see that the experience of salvation was expected to be followed by the baptism in the Spirit, but that the early Christian recognized that there could be a delay—otherwise why would Paul have bothered to ask the question? Rather, he would have questioned their salvation.” (Pages 27–28)
“The ‘soul,’ called psyche in Greek, is the psychological part of us—composed of our intellect, our will, and our emotions. This part of us is wonderful when it is under the control of God through the Spirit, but when it is out of control, it does terrible things.” (Page 5)
“A neurosurgeon friend made this interesting comment one day, ‘I understand why God uses speaking in tongues. The speech centers dominate the brain. I don’t see how God Himself could do much about the physical brain unless He got hold of the speech centers!’” (Page 60)
“Intellectual understanding will come later. As the great St. Augustine of Hippo put it: ‘Credo ut intelligam.’ That is, ‘I believe in order that I may understand.’” (Page 29)
I had known Dr. Bennett since 1960 and looked on him as the first non-Pentecostal to receive national attention upon receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an Episcopal priest in Van Nuys. He ministered with me in seminar at ORU (Oral Roberts University), and later spoke in chapel. I also enjoyed the book, The Holy Spirit and You. It’s blessed ORU’s Seminary as a textbook all these years.
—Oral Roberts, Chancellor, Oral Roberts University
- Title: The Holy Spirit and You: A Guide to the Spirit-Filled Life
- Authors: Dennis Bennett and Rita Bennett
- Publisher: Bridge-Logos
- Publication Date: 2006
- Pages: 258
Dennis Bennett was one of the key figures in the early charismatic renewal movement when he announced in 1960 to his St. Mark’s Episcopal Church congregation in Van Nuys, CA, that he had experienced a new outpouring of God’s Spirit. A few years after moving to Seattle to pastor a church, his wife, Elberta, died. He married Rita Reed and they went on to found the Christian Renewal Association. Dennis passed away in 1991, and Rita continued to minister on radio, television and colleges.
Rita Bennett is internationally known for her work in emotional and spiritual healing.
