Do You Need The Holy Spirit?
“If God called his Holy Spirit out of the world, about 95 percent of what we are doing would go on and we would brag about it. ”This blunt statement about church programs by Dr. Carl Bates of Amarillo, Texas, was coupled with an equally blunt question to ministers at the annual Baptist Statewide Conference on Evangelism in Columbia, S. C.: “What are you doing that you can’t get done unless the power of God falls on your ministry? (Encyclopedia of Illustrations #10381).