Take a helpful analogy: a beginner tennis player learns and imitates graceful basic strokes of Roger Federer, like service, backhand and forehand; but then he also desires to learn more nuanced strokes of Roger, like, backhand slice, reverse and even twinner. The beauty of Roger's strokes just invites his desire to learn and imitate them, but if he does not fan the "fire" of this invitational desire, then nothing will happen and he will not learn the fullness of the beauty and grace of tennis movements.

Similarly, when a man sees a person full of the gifts of Holy Spirit, like the Scripture says about, e.g. Barnabas (Acts 11:24), he conceives an invitational desire to imitate those graceful features emanating from Barnabas' words, deeds and demeanour, incomparably more than Federer's movements can achieve on any tennis-lover, but if he does not fan this invitational desire and does not practice the acquisition of those features, they themselves will not be developed in him, for gifts of the Holy Spirit develop in us only in a free co-action, συνεργεία, on our part, with the action of the grace. Thus, the possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is even not a possession, unless the possessor cultivates and increases those gifts by his free graceful initiative and efforts, for otherwise "even that will be taken from him, that he possesses" (Matthew 13:12).

Thus, in short, clear and unequivocal yes as to your question.

Take a helpful analogy: a beginner tennis player learns and imitates graceful basic strokes of Roger Federer, like service, backhand and forehand; but then he also desires to learn more nuanced strokes of Roger, like, backhand slice, reverse and even twinner. The beauty of Roger's strokes just invites his desire to learn and imitate them, but if he does not fan the "fire" of this invitational desire, then nothing will happen and he will not learn the fullness of the beauty and grace of tennis movements.

Similarly, when a man sees a person full of the gifts of Holy Spirit, like the Scripture says about, e.g. Barnabas (Acts 11:24), he conceives an invitational desire to imitate those graceful features emanating from Barnabas' words, deeds and demeanour, incomparably more than Federer's movements can achieve on any tennis-lover, but if he does not fan this invitational desire and does not practice the acquisition of those features, they themselves will not be developed in him, for gifts of the Holy Spirit develop in us only in a free co-action, συνεργεία (cf. 1 Cor. 3:9), on our part, with the action of the grace. Thus, the possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is even not a possession, unless the possessor cultivates and increases those gifts by his free graceful initiative and efforts, for otherwise "even that will be taken from him, that he possesses" (Matthew 13:12).

Thus, in short, clear and unequivocal yes as to your question.

Take a helpful analogy: a beginner tennis player learns and imitates graceful basic strokes of Roger Federer, like service, backhand and forehand; but then he also desires to lear more nuanced strokes of Roger, like, backhand slice, reverse and even twinner. The beauty of Roger's strokes just invites his desire to learn and imitate them, but if he does not fan the "fire" of this invitational desire, then nothing will happen and he will not learn the fullness of the beauty and grace of tennis movements.

Similarly, when a man sees a person full of the gifts of Holy Spirit, like the Scripture says about, e.g. Barnabas (Acts 11:24), he conceives an invitational desire to imitate those graceful features emanating from Barnabas' words, deeds and demeanour, incomparably more than Federer's movements can achieve on any tennis-lover, but if he does not fan this invitational desire and does not practice the acquisition of those features, they themselves will not be developed in him, for gifts of the Holy Spirit develop in us only in a free co-action from our side with the action of the grace. Thus, the possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is even not a possession, unless the possessor cultivates and increases those gifts by his free graceful initiative and efforts, for otherwise "even that will be taken from him, that he possesses" (Matthew 13:12).

Thus, in short, clear and unequivocal yes as to your question.

Take a helpful analogy: a beginner tennis player learns and imitates graceful basic strokes of Roger Federer, like service, backhand and forehand; but then he also desires to learn more nuanced strokes of Roger, like, backhand slice, reverse and even twinner. The beauty of Roger's strokes just invites his desire to learn and imitate them, but if he does not fan the "fire" of this invitational desire, then nothing will happen and he will not learn the fullness of the beauty and grace of tennis movements.

Similarly, when a man sees a person full of the gifts of Holy Spirit, like the Scripture says about, e.g. Barnabas (Acts 11:24), he conceives an invitational desire to imitate those graceful features emanating from Barnabas' words, deeds and demeanour, incomparably more than Federer's movements can achieve on any tennis-lover, but if he does not fan this invitational desire and does not practice the acquisition of those features, they themselves will not be developed in him, for gifts of the Holy Spirit develop in us only in a free co-action, συνεργεία, on our part, with the action of the grace. Thus, the possession of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is even not a possession, unless the possessor cultivates and increases those gifts by his free graceful initiative and efforts, for otherwise "even that will be taken from him, that he possesses" (Matthew 13:12).

Thus, in short, clear and unequivocal yes as to your question.