The calling on our lives to follow Christ is a calling that if we are true to, will cause our lives to look radically different than the culture we find so prevalent in today's world. Even in light of the current debate over homosexuality, the love of God compels us to reach out in truth AND love to the world around us. Those two principals don’t compete with each other but actually go hand in hand as we show the world that God has a better plan that will lead all of us into a more full life.

God gives us the tools we need to accomplish the impossible task of living for Him and making disciples of the world. This only happends through the power of the Holy Spirit as God uses His gifts to help us in supernatural ways.

The Holy Spirit works ON us so that He can also work THROUGH us. He convicts, challenges, empowers, etc. our lives so that we can be a blessing to others. Our natural bent is sin. In Galatians our spirits are described in dramatically sinful ways. The Holy Spirit wants to change that.