The Christian Leader and the Holy Spirit. I have for a while been thinking about the idea of change and the process of change when re-engineering a church. I have also been looking at the place of the Holy Spirit in that process and in the church itself. We are after all a spiritual entity, we are in the world but not of the world. Who is the Holy Spirit? According to Jesus he is our advocate our comforter. He will come and convict and convince the world of sin, righteousness and judgement. He is the one that empowers the church and when he speaks to us he does so to comfort, edify and exhort the church. I believe when a Christian leader is taking a church through change that there is a great need not only to put in place structure and systems to ensure that the process of change can be outworked. But I also feel and believe there is a need to submit to and make room for the outworking of the Holy Spirit. As I see it there are two dangers; The danger that a ch...