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The essential character of the Spirit in Luke’s writings has largely been understood in one of two ways. On the one hand the Spirit is comprehended as “the source of Salvation” by non-Pentecostal sectors(e.g. James D. G. Dunn). On the other hand the Spirit is understood as “empowering for witness” by classical Pentecostals(e.g. Robert P. Menzies). Recently Max Turner has synthesized these two positions in the category of “power,” that is “power in Israel’s restoration and witness.”This study begins by examining Turner’s new paradigm for Luke’s pneumatology. He argues that most converts receive the Spirit potentially in conversion-initiation. His argument is, however, remote from Luke’s grasp of the Spirit. This article sees the outpouring of the Spirit for Luke is a clear event. Then this paper points out that a pneumatological paradigm built from Luke-Acts is wider than the classical Pentecostal paradigm permits. So this article pursues the personality of the Holy Spirit for binding the Luke’s broad-ranging view of the Spirit. It is seen that the Spirit performs overwhelmingly personal activities. It is also found that Jesus and the disciples (or church) were in an intimate personal relationship with the Spirit. All this leads to the conclusion that the Spirit in Luke-Acts is better understood as the “Spirit as a person” rather than the “Spirit as the source of salvation” or the “Spirit simply as empowering for witness.”
