Before you choose to become a Christian, the Holy Spirit is at work in you, showing you your sin, and drawing you to Christ. Christian writers have seen in various references to the Spirit of Yahweh in the Hebrew Scriptures an anticipation of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Hegel 1798 [§ iii. The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate. Here are three ways to experience the Holy Spirit. The work of the Holy Spirit in a Christian’s life is an on-going process of becoming holy through sanctification. Through the conviction and power of the Holy Spirit, believers will not indulge the sinful acts of the flesh ( Galatians 5:16-21 ) but will bear the good fruit of the Spirit ( Galatians 5:22-25 ). The paper will address Hegel's reflections on a "community of love" in his early essay The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate, in the light of his criticisms to the violence of law and the sacrificial circle of sovereignty at the basis The role of the Holy Spirit in missions has received a lot of scholarly attention in recent decades primarily due to the rise of Pentecostalism.4 Within the Roman Catholic Church, the function of the Holy Spirit became “institutionalized” and absorbed within the ministries of the Church to the point that it lost its place as guide and leader in Similarly, Spirit baptism and the doctrine of initial evidence are practised in African Pentecostal Christianity, especially in classical Pentecostal churches and charismatic movements.