With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
You find that the things you let go of while following Jesus were the things that were going to destroy you in the end.
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
...you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.
Jesus' call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.