Jesus used the gifts of the Holy Spirit like a bell to call people to Him and His message. He pointed to the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit flowing through Him as verification of who He was. The first-century Christians also used the gifts of the Holy Spirit to validate the truth of their claims. If Jesus and the early disciples needed the gifts, how can we possibly do without them? This is the reason that our modern proclamation of the gospel, without the gifts, has not had the same impact on our society that the early Christians had in their day.