Or in the words of Jesus in John 4, we need “Spirit” and “truth.”3 For years I puzzled over Jesus’s language, but I’ve come to realize these are the key to spiritual formation. To change, to grow, to break free of our flesh and become like Jesus, we need Spirit and truth. What is Spirit? Pentecostal scholar Gordon Fee defined Spirit as “God’s empowering presence.”4 It’s the animating energy we draw on through relationship to God. And truth, as we already covered, is reality. Or words that we can rely on to find meaning in our lives.
