Holy Spirit

The True Jesus Church teaches that the Holy Spirit is God, specifically God in His working relationship with believers and the church. Because God is one and Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit is the presence and power of Jesus within believers. The Holy Spirit is not a separate person but the continuing presence of the one God (Jesus) dwelling in and empowering the church.

The church emphasizes that the reception of the Holy Spirit is both necessary for salvation and evidenced by the gift of speaking in tongues (glossolalia). Drawing from the Pentecostal tradition, the True Jesus Church holds that speaking in unknown languages is the initial and continuing sign that a person has genuinely received the Holy Spirit. This is not merely one gift among many but the primary manifestation that validates a person's spiritual experience.

The baptism of (or in) the Holy Spirit, therefore, is not a secondary experience but part of the essential salvation requirement. A person cannot claim to have properly responded to God's salvation offer without this baptism, which is demonstrated by tongues. This distinctive emphasis on tongues as mandatory evidence sets the True Jesus Church apart from mainstream Protestantism.