We are returning to Watchman Nee’s The Spiritual Man in this post to discover why is it important for the believer (even for the unbeliever) to know that he or she has a spirit?  Remember that this spirit is not the Holy Spirit but is, instead, the human spirit.   There are a couple of reasons. [...]

In my last post, I very briefly related the content of  The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee.  Just prior to pushing the “Publish” button, I happened across these words in New International Encyclopedia of Biblical Words (Zondervan, 1998) under the entry for “Soul and Spirit”: “Soul” and “Spirit” are important biblical concepts that make distinctive [...]

Churches and Christians use the term spirit all the time and it is right to do so because the spirit is fundamental to our faith. Christians often say they are in this world but not of this world – we are sojourners; travelers or aliens in this world claiming citizenship of a spiritual world which we [...]