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Tyler Staton: What We Get Wrong About the Holy Spirit

For much of his life, Tyler Staton felt like something was missing in his faith. He had grown up with a clear sense of God as a loving father and Jesus as the key to redemption. But the Holy Spirit? That was the vague, elusive figure—mentioned in scripture, sure, but rarely discussed in depth in the churches he attended.“The Holy Spirit was this sort of mysterious indwelling of God’s presence that I guess was doing a whole bunch of pretty radical things in the New Testament,” Staton says.