Intellectual approaches to Christianity all lead to the same place.
They may look different but they are more similar than people realize. They all end up denying the power of God. They all look at the work of the devil and call it the sovereign work of God. They all leave you in a place of non-resistance to the devil. They all breed passive speculation rather than bold acts of faith. They all neglect the Holy Spirit. None of them heal the sick, raise the dead, feed the 5000. Some of them start well but over time they become more concerned with protecting their own doctrine than the world that is in front of them. Those that started well did so because they started a revelation, wisdom from on high. They started with a spiritual reality. In the end they esteemed the revelation more than the Revelator.

Without the Holy Spirit, without His power, His presence, His wisdom, His leading, Christianity becomes impossible. All things are possible with God. Without Him you are without God. You don’t get to choose which part of the Trinity to ignore. It’s package deal. We mistake the mercy of God for His will. The fact that churches still exist while denying His power is a testimony to God’s mercy, His long suffering rather than evidence of His will.

The unpardonable sin is ascribing the work of the Holy Spirit to the devil. The worst sin, according to God is a sin against the Holy Spirit. He is God. He is God in us. We have to stop ignoring Him. To ignore Him is to say that we can succeed without Him which is tantamount to saying that we as human beings can walk the walk without God. This was the sin of Adam and Eve. They forsook intimacy with God for the knowledge of good and evil. They traded relationship for information. And it took the blood of Jesus to fix it.

God is looking for vessels that will abandon themselves to Him, to a person. That is our call. Wineskins that dispense the new wine of the Holy Spirit. It’s so simple. It requires us to lay aside all of our own thoughts, desires, all human wisdom and follow Him. And in following Him, everything else will unfold.