The God I Never Knew, Robert Morris

The emphasis of this book is getting to know the Holy Spirit and learning to listen to it. The beginning of the book was really good, it was about how important the Holy Spirit is and the relationship we should have with it. He also talks about how we should achieve this relationship. Morris goes on the explain that the Holy Spirit gives gifts and how we discern what our gift is and how the Holy Spirit can use our gift.

I absolutely did not like this book at all. At first I thought the book was heading in a really great direction and was really excited to dig in. As I began reading I really was taking stuff from this book about how so many people don't talk about the Holy Spirit but we should and we shouldn't be afraid of the Holy Spirit and what He can do in our lives. But then Morris went on tell about how the Holy Spirit literally talks to him. I believe that the Holy Spirit talks to us but not in the way that Morris claims. He gave an example of how the Holy Spirit directly told him that this particular woman felt like the prodical son and he called her out about it in church in front of everyone, having never met this women before. I don't believe that the Holy Spirit works in this manner. I more than believe that God works through the Holy Spirit in our lives and uses the Holy Spirit to talk to us and guide us. But I don't believe that He literally talks to us in the manner that Morris does nor do I believe that He tells us things about other people that we would have never known other wise. I do believe that the Holy Spirit guides us to talk to particular people for particular reasons but I certainly don't believe the Holy Spirit works the same way that Morris believes. I would not recommend this book to other readers.

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