During yesterday's sermon, I shared these words from D.A. Carson:People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.We drift toward compromise...

Most of the time, we think of Spirit-filled people and Spirit-filled churches in terms of enthusiasm: vibrant worship, gifts of healing and miracles, supernatural levels of love and commitment.And then Jesus comes along with these distinctly un-glamorous words:And...