The Experience of Christ as Life
The experience of Christ is the experience of life, the divine life. When we experience the divine life, in fact, we are experiencing Christ in His unsearchable riches. First John 5:12 says, “He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.” The divine life and the Son are inseparable in our experience. All truth is for our experience, and many matters of Christian experience require that we attend to simple practices which promote the growth and development of the divine life that we have received through faith in Christ.

The Spirit
In the New Testament, the revelation of the person of the Spirit, can be ascribed to at least twenty titles: the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35), the Spirit of God (Matt. 12:28), the Spirit of the Father (10:20), the Spirit of the Lord (Luke 4:18), the Spirit of the Son of God (Gal. 4:6), the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:9), the Spirit of Jesus (Acts 16:7), the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19), the Lord Spirit (2 Cor. 3:18), the Spirit of the living God (v. 3), the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b), the Spirit of life (Rom. 8:2), the Spirit of grace (Heb. 10:29), the Spirit of reality (John 14:17; cf. Acts 1:8), the Comforter (v. 16), the Spirit of power (Luke 24:49), the Spirit of glory and of God (1 Pet. 4:14), the eternal Spirit (Heb. 9:14), the seven Spirits (Rev. 1:4), and the Spirit (John 7:39). Although every title refers to and is a designation of the one, unique, divine Spirit, each title nevertheless bears its own significance and unveils a particular aspect of the Spirit.

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