Elevating one or more spiritual gifts as more important elevates pride.
Tozer - In practice it has resulted in much shameless exhibitionism, a tendency to depend upon experiences instead of upon Christ, and often a lack of ability to distinguish the works of the flesh from the operations of the Spirit.
Where there is no expectation there can be no faith, and where there is no faith the inquiry is meaningless.
MO - if there is no curiosity about the kingdom, faith is meaningless.
To give up our last idol is to plunge ourselves into a state of inward loneliness which no gospel meeting, no fellowship with other Christians, can ever cure. For this reason most Christians play it safe and settle for a life of compromise.
They have some of God, to be sure, but not all; and God has some of them, but not all. And so they live their tepid lives and try to disguise with bright smiles and snappy choruses the deep spiritual destitution within them.
The soul agony breaks up the fallow ground, empties the vessel, detaches the heart from earthly interests, and focuses the attention upon God.
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