The reports I have heard most often from those sitting under my ministry is that I make the Scriptures easier to understand and when I preach [people] learn something. When I hear that from people, I rejoice.
The Person and work of the Holy Spirit has always been an important area of concentration for me. Paul said in Romans 7:6 that we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. Now, I am and always have been a Word preacher. Whether I am doing a topical message or expository message, my notes are always filled with numerous Scripture references supporting and illuminating each point. The Scriptures are the final rule of faith and practice. Nevertheless, the purpose of the Scriptures is to lead us to Jesus so that we may be justifed by faith, receive forgiveness of sins, and then receive the promise of the Father, the gift of the Holy Spirit. In fact, the Scriptures reveal that Jesus redeemed us for this very purpose. He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
The greatest privilege we have as New Covenant believers is to be personally indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Because of this, it is important to know the Holy Spirit and His ways, to learn to recognize and discern His voice, and to learn how to be led by the Spirit so we do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. The Holy Scriptures are the ultimate authority for our Christian lives, but God did not give us the Scriptures to replace the Holy Spirit. On the contrary, He gave us the Scriptures so that we can discern the Holy Spirit and be guarded from error.
I make every effort to be led by the Holy Spirit in my preaching, teaching and altar ministry, and to preach the whole counsel of the Word of God, but one need I see in the Body of Christ is for the saints to be matured in their knowledge of and experience with the Holy Spirit. In the past, I believe errors have been made in both legalism (teaching people to live as if we were still under the law of Moses or the law of church tradition), and licentiousness (living as though we are lawless. Both extremes are in error.