Why we invented the Holy Spirit Game:

1. In order to show how absurd the Arian (Anti-Trinitarian) view of the Holy Spirit is, we invented this game. Anti-Trinitarians believe the Holy Spirit is God's active force or "electricity" and reject that the Holy Spirit is an actual person like the Father and the Son. Yet scripture has the Holy Spirit speaking, being called a HE, feeling emotions, making freewill decisions.
2. Anti-Trinitarians not only reject the Holy Spirit is one of three members of the Godhead, (Trinity) they reject that the Holy Spirit even exists as a person at all! Arians like Jehovah's Witnesses and Christadelphians, for example, call the Holy Spirit "God's active force", "energy", "like electricity". Now we know that God does indeed have what they describe.
3. We deny not that God has an active force of energy like electricity to get things done. We question, however, why God would go to so much trouble to personify his own inherent power to the extent that it has emotions, thoughts and speech INDEPENDANT of Himself.
4. Now we know that Arians would argue that the Holy Spirit never acts independently of the Father, since they are really one and the same thing, but this begs the question. The problem for Arians is to explain why God chose to invent the entire concept of the Holy Spirit at all. Why was it necessary for God to give "electricity" apparent personality, independence, thoughts, the ability to speak like a person and refer to this energy as a "HE"?
5. If Arians are correct, what God has done in inventing or utilizing the "concept of the Holy Spirit" as His power, is like us doing the same with our biceps muscle. We don't refer to this muscle as a HE, have it engage in discussion, and make it appear it made a decision with a mind of its own to lift something or open a door. Yet this is exactly what Anti-Trinitarians want us to believe about the Holy Spirit. In fact, what Arians suggest God does with his power, amounts to ventriloquism. (Defn: the practice of speaking so that the voice seems to come from some source other then the speaker)
6. So, we ask, why would God go to all the trouble of inventing and personifying what appears on the surface to be a separate entity speaking? This makes God into a master ventriloquist!

1. Game takes 45 minutes to play. Perfect for congregational Bible studies!
2. Maximum of 19 players.
3. You will need one happy face sticker or button for each member. You can print the happy faces from the template below, cut them out and either pin or tape them to the biceps (their active force) of each player.
4. Print out the game script below and cut each numbered row into strips. You will have 19 game pieces numbered 1 - 19. Each game piece has a number, the actual script the player will read and the supporting Bible text.
5. Hand out one or more of the game pieces to each member.
6. Hand out the Bible verses
7. The players read only the script during the game, not the supporting Bible verses. This is to prevent confusion and the continuity of the fictitious story.

Once each member has a happy face attached to one of their biceps and a game piece numbered 1-19 and a separate copy of the outline called, " The Holy Spirit is a person not an it" here is what you do:

1. Read the six points in section called, "Why we invented the Holy Spirit Game". This sets the background for the game
2. Read out loud for the whole church, the section is called, " The Holy Spirit is a person not an it". Remember to emphasize that electricity and energy cannot do any of the things attributed to the Holy Spirit. This is the actual Bible teaching section.
3. Using the numbers from 1-19 on each game piece call for #1 to be read by whoever has it and so, on till you read the whole script
4. They are to read only story script in the left hand column and not the supporting Bible verse.
5. When called upon to read in orderly sequence, each member must lift up their biceps with the happy face and practice their ventriloquism by getting the happy face to say the statement each in orderly sequence so the story is told. This exactly illustrates what Anti-Trinitarian claim God does with the holy Spirit as His "active force". 
6. Remember, the story in the game is based upon these Bible verses. Although the story is fictitious, the concepts attributed to the Holy Spirit are not.

The Holy Spirit is a person not an it:
(The Bible study portion of the Game)

1. John 14:16,17,26; 16:7 The helper, advocate, lawyer like Christ 1 Jn 2:1
2. Heb 10:29 "and have insulted the Spirit"
3. Acts 20:28 The Holy Spirit has made [appointed] you overseers."
4. Acts 16:6 "forbidden by the Holy Spirit to go to Asia"
5. Acts 11:12 "He told Peter to go with Cornelius' men.
6. Rom 8:26 "He intercedes for us"
7. John 14:26 bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
8. 1 Pet 1:11 "Spirit of Christ" in the prophets testified
9. Acts 5:3 "You have lied unto the Holy Spirit "
10. 1 Cor 2:11 "He knows God's thoughts.
11. Jn 16:13 "Whatever He hears He will speak" He will disclose to the apostles "things to come."
12. 1 Ti 4:1 Acts 13:2 "The Spirit explicitly says"
13. Acts 13:3-4 "being sent out by the Holy Spirit"
14. Rom 8:26 "He helps our weaknesses"
15. Jn 16:13 "He will guide you"
16. 1 Cor 2:10 "the Spirit searches all things"
17. Eph 4:30 "and do not grieve the Holy Spirit"
18. Acts 15:28 "it seemed good to us and the Holy Spirit"
19. Rom 15:30 "I urge you by the love of the Holy Spirit "

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