Gordon Fee on the Experience of the Holy Spirit

"For Paul, the Spirit was an experienced, empowering reality. Paul would not have understood most historic Protestantism. I know that sounds unkind but it is true. The reason he would not have understood it is because he would not have understood a Christian life in which the experienced life of the Spirit was not the key to every dimension of that life".

Gordon Fee - speaking at Holy Trinity Brompton 1996 - cited by Greg Haslam - "Be filled with the Spirit" - Preach the Word! (Ed. Greg Haslam) - Sovereign World, London (2006) - p606.

Greg Haslam on Being Filled with the Spirit

"In explaining this matter of being filled with the Spirit, we are sometimes urged to seek a "second blessing". But this might imply that we could end our spiritual quest right there, on the ground that we have now "had it". The New Testament never urges us to settle for the first time we were baptised in the Holy Spirit as if that was the sum total of His power and Presence that we would ever need. The truth is, we need the Lord to pour out on us a continual effulgence of the Spirit's life and power so that we will be filled with joy, victorious over temptation, bold in witness and maturing in all our relationships".

Greg Haslam - "Be Filled with the Spirit" - Preach the Word! (Ed. Greg Haslam) - Sovereign Books, London (2006) - p600.

Greg Haslam on Ephesians 4 Ministries

"We cannot omit any of these dimensions of ministry of the Word without suffering loss. If we delete apostolic and prophetic ministry, we are missing two-fifths of Christ's Word-ministry to His Church. If they are operating and being received well, all five of these ministries 'prepare God's people for works of service'; they are equippers of the saints".

Greg Haslam - "Prophetic Preaching" - in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam) - Sovereign World, London (2006) - p428

Greg Haslam on His Presence = Joy!

"Yet the great need of the hour is for thousands of men and women in this generation to encounter God in the way that Isaiah did and be overwhelmed with God's glory as a result. Only this will result in the kind of Church we all long to see and only this will produce the kind of joy, lasting happiness and peace that the world so craves but is never able to manufacture. Real joy - the God kind - doesn't come in a bottle, can't be swallowed in pill form, can't be injected and won't be found in any thrill-seeking endeavour anywhere in the world. Pure joy is only found in the Presence of God".

Greg Haslam - "A Radical Encounter with God" - New Wine Books, West Sussex (2007) - p28.

Greg Haslam on Needing an Encounter with God!

"We need to experience the real, authentic joy of God that comes as a result of encountering God, seeing His power at work, hearing His voice speaking into our lives and have a spiritual reawakening. The greatest thing that could happen to any of us, ever, in our whole lifetime is that we have a mighty encounter with Him".

Greg Haslam - "A Radical Encounter with God" - New Wine Books, West Sussex (2007) - p24.

Greg Haslam on the Presence of God

"Without a real encounter with God we soon slip into a mechanical form of Christianity ... in short what many Christians have is a kind of synthetic spirituality and a synthetic joy. From time to time it looks like the real thing but it manifestly isn't. The real thing is something that draws God's powerful Presence and arouses a watching world either to total hatred or total surrender to the God we love and serve".

Greg Haslam - "A Radical Encounter with God" - New Wine Books, West Sussex (2007) - p22-23.

Greg Haslam on the Church's Need

"The bottom line is this; if the Church is to become the centre of renewal and world change that Isaiah said she would (see Isaiah 2:1-4) then we need a fresh encounter with Isaiah's God".

Greg Haslam - "A Radical Encounter with God" - New Wine Books, West Sussex (2007) - p18.

Greg Haslam on God's Work in the Nations Today

"I believe God is busy raising up men and women just like Isaiah today - people who have experienced the glory of Christ and will speak prophetically to our nation. God will grant them access to the highest places and most influential people in the land so they can testify to His glory".

Greg Haslam - "A Radical Encounter with God" - New Wine Books, West Sussex (2007) - p14.

Greg Haslam on Encountering God

"I believe that we can encounter God in much the same way as Isaiah did, at least in degree. We can hear His voice and know His commission on our lives just as the prophet did".

Greg Haslam - "A Radical Encounter with God" - New Wine Books, West Sussex (2007) - p14.

Greg Haslam on the Gift of Prophecy

"Prophecy is the living voice of the Spirit of Christ to living people right now ... prophecy is the supernatural ability to speak the mind of God on a given subject at any time by the prompting of the Holy Spirit".

Greg Haslam - "Prophetic Preaching - Part 1" Seminar - Together on a Mission 2008 Brighton

Greg Haslam on Worshipping the Triune God

"All three Persons of the Godhead are to be acknowledged, honoured and intimately encountered in worship activities that aim to please God. We can have fellowship with Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all three and enjoy their manifest Presence among us ... When we encounter one, we encounter all three - God above us, God beside us, God inside us".

Greg Haslam - "God in Three Persons" - Newfrontiers Magazine - April - June 2008 - Volume 3 - Issue 7 - (p34).

Greg Haslam Defining a Conservative

"A conservative; someone who believes God should never do anything for the first time".

Greg Haslam - "Fire Keepers or Smoke without Fire?" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Thursday 27th June 2002.

Greg Haslam on the Pastor/Teacher Ministry

"There are two ways to leave the ministry in a particular location – to be sent out or to be carried out in a box. We have no option to walk out because it has got a bit difficult for us".

Greg Haslam - "Correctly Handling the Word of Truth" - Seminar at TOAM 07.

Greg Haslam on Ephesians 4 Ministries

"Until such ministries are again heard and seen in action among us, we shall remain somewhat handicapped and stunted indefinately and never reach our full potential. God help us if that should prove to be the case".

Greg Haslam - "Ephesians 4 Ministries and Church Unity - Appendix 2" in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam" - (2006) Sovereign World - (p622).

Greg Haslam on Ephesians 4 Ministries and End-Time Glorious Church

"We are to become nothing less than the vanguard display of God's ultimate plan for the whole cosmos! As trans-local ministries ignore denominational boundaries and cross-fertilise diverse congregations they will help break up the lonely, isolated and in some cases fiercely independent ethos of many Christian groups ... it is futile to pray for unity and expanding mission whilst at the same time disparaging the instruments that God uses to effect this".

Greg Haslam - "Ephesians 4 Ministries and Church Unity - Appendix 2" in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam" - (2006) Sovereign World - (p621).

Greg Haslam on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"The baptism of the Spirit is a movement of the Spirit both within us and upon us. It is ... both a baptism and a filling. It is a movement of God's Spirit from the outside in, so that He descends upon us and penetrates our very life. It is a movement of God's Spirit from the inside out so that He pervades every part of our redeemed humanity and personality. This is both a deluge from above and a flooding from within".

Greg Haslam - "Be Filled with the Spirit - Appendix 1" in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam" - (2006) Sovereign World - (p608).

Greg Haslam on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"The Baptism of the Spirit imparts to us the spiritual weaponry necessary to become Christ's co-belligerents in spiritual warfare and to reinforce and to extend Satan's defeat and the victory already won for us at the cross of Calvary. No wonder the devil wants God's people to remain ignorant or totally confused about these matters. And no wonder the Church in so many places has for so long hung on like grim death for mere survival with little or no hope of success, and without the remotest expectation of advance and victory. The baptism of the Spirit changes all that!".

Greg Haslam - "Be Filled with the Spirit - Appendix 1" in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam" - (2006) Sovereign World - (p608).

Greg Haslam on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"You cannot be a Christian without the Holy Spirit indwelling you (Romans 8:9) but you can be a Christian without Him empowering you".

Greg Haslam - "Be Filled with the Spirit - Appendix 1" in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam" - (2006) Sovereign World - (p606).

Greg Haslam on Be Filled With the Spirit

"Most of us heed Paul's command 'do not get drunk with wine' but in my experience it is not drunken Christians who give us the most problems, it is those who have not been filled with the Holy Spirit. Think of the rivalry, slander, gossip, meanness, rebellion ... and lazy apathy that are ruining so many churches - and all because such people refuse to be filled with the Spirit".

Greg Haslam - "Be Filled with the Spirit - Appendix 1" in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam" - (2006) Sovereign World - (p603).

Greg Haslam on the Primary End of Preaching

"The Holy Spirit's great priority is first to make worshippers of us all - the primary end of all preaching".

Greg Haslam - "Be Filled with the Spirit - Appendix 1" in "Preach the Word!" (ed. Greg Haslam" - (2006) Sovereign World - (p600).