From fruitlessness to fulfillment: guiding believers to walk in the spirit

Richard L Allen

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From fruitlessness to fulfillment: guiding believers to walk in the spirit

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Richard L Allen. From Fruitlessness to Fulfillment: Guiding Believers to Walk In the Spirit. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/f558dada-07ae-406f-b0bb-3f489022edea.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

R. L. Allen. From fruitlessness to fulfillment: guiding believers to walk in the spirit. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/f558dada-07ae-406f-b0bb-3f489022edea

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Richard L Allen. From Fruitlessness to Fulfillment: Guiding Believers to Walk In the Spirit. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/f558dada-07ae-406f-b0bb-3f489022edea.

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Richard L Allen

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Abstract

Some Southern Baptist leaders are alarmed at the number of professing believers who seem to completely drop out of the Christian life. This is especially perplexing in light of the belief that when a person is born again, he or she receives the Holy Spirit and is thereby equipped and capable of fruitful Christian life. Southern Baptists need not concede their biblical doctrine in order to explain and overcome this phenomenon. While it is true that a person receives the Holy Spirit at the moment of conversion, some Southern Baptists fail to teach their converts how to recognize his work and how to relate to him as a person. Hence, he is grieved, his work is quenched, and life in Christ become stagnant and unfruitful. This project will delve into the fruitlessness of inactive Christians and demonstrate how the major Christian disciplines are an outgrowth of the Holy Spirit's work in a believer's life. Rather than preaching ritual, it will stress the relationship of the believer with God and thereby move them from fruitlessness to fulfilment by guiding them to walk in the Spirit.

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