Word and Spirit
Dr. Chris Montgomery | Aug. 31, 2025
Purpose: We exist to promote a healthy rootedness in Jesus that is mobilized within the body of Christ at Frazer and multiplied beyond our walls through fearless and intentional compassion.
Vision: A church that fulfills the Great Commission by living the Great Commandment.
Mission: We desire to see a healthy rootedness in Jesus through the word, prayer and worship that is mobilized within the body of Christ of Frazer through groups, gatherings and serving; and multiplied beyond our walls through fearless and intentional compassion through both personal witness and strategically through local and global mission partners.
Values:
Passionate Prayer
Intentional Presence
Radical Generosity
Surrendered Service
The Spirit is our promised inheritance.
(Eph. 1:13-14) And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of his glory.
(Jeremiah 31:31-33) “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Jesus fulfilled the Father’s promise by sending the Holy Spirit.
(Acts 1:4) Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, “Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as I told you before.”
(Acts 2:16-18) But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: 17 “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; 18 even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.’”
(Acts 2:32-33) This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
Now the Spirit lives in the follower of Christ.
(John 14:17) ... even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
(Romans 8:9) You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
How do we know?
- Faith – (1 Corinthians 12:3) So I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus, and no one can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.
- Freedom – (2 Corinthians 3:17) Now the Lord is the SPIRIT, and where the SPIRIT of the LORD is, there is freedom.
- Assurance – (Romans 8:16) The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God.
- Fruit – (Galatians 5:22-25) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
- Gifts – (1 Corinthians 12:4-7) Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
The Scriptures give believers three warnings about the Holy Spirit:
(1 Thess. 5:19-21) Do not quench the Spirit 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything; hold fast what is good.
(Ephesians 4:30) And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
(Hebrews 10:29) Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
(John 3:8) The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit.