Gordon Fee expressed a concern when Jesus Christ is the sole focus in the church, although He is rightly to be taught. He pointed out that “. . . we are less sure about the Holy Spirit. Despite the affirmations in our creeds and hymns and the lip service paid to the Spirit in our occasional conversations, the Spirit has been largely marginalized both in the halls of learning and in the life of the church as a community of faith.
“. . . too often missing . . . are two further matters that, for Paul, lie at the very heart of faith. First, the Spirit as person, the promised return of God’s own personal presence with his people; second, the Spirit as eschatological fulfillment, who both reconstitutes God’s people anew and empowers us to live the life of the future in our between-the-times existence - between the time of Christ’s first and second coming.
“If the church is going to be effective in our postmodern world, we need to stop paying mere lip service to the Spirit and to recapture Paul’s perspective: the Spirit as the experienced, empowering return of God’s own personal presence in and among us, who enables us to live as a radically eschatological people in the present world while we await the consummation.”
And through my studies I have shared the process by which, at least in part, the Holy Spirit interacts with us in repentance in our time. It is a dualist interaction created by God so that He can have a personal communion with His people.