It is superstitious to equate our feelings and inclinations with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Worship is not simply a feeling that is experienced; it must also involve understanding and the mind.

God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God's judgment. I don't reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.