The idea of holding back certainly didn't come from Scripture.

Show true religion, cause words don't relieve

Jesus didn't say that if you wanted to follow Him you could do it in a lukewarm manner. He said, 'Take up your cross and follow Me.'

The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It's about God who wants to give to you.

Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.

The church becomes irrelevant when it becomes purely a human creation. We are not all we were made to be when everything in our lives and churches can be explained apart from the work and presence of the Spirit of God.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.