Would you rather have the SPIRIT or TRUTH? Take your pick.

I grew up with the Scriptures being taught void of power. Thus the spirit that was weaved together with the Word of God was a spirit of man. Though I was provided a strong foundation of morality and scripture study, it utlimately offered a lifetime of hypocracy, and arrogence, and would be void of true relationship with God making the gospel only attainable by those who were intellectually inclined and could memorize complex creeds word for word.

Eventually I was ready for religion that was more than rules and documents and turned to a more "spiritual" approach which conveniently set aside reason and flesh to "transcend" to a place where troubles would simply fade away if they weren't blasted out of the way before me. Though this created a large degree of freedom, experience and passion, it ultimately offered a lifetime of instability, and competition, and would be void of the character and simplicity of Christ making the gospel far out of the reach of the broken, unspiritual people that Christ died for.
But praise be to God, that He is returning me to a healthy faith in both the unchanging truth of the scriptures and the untamable power of the Spirit which can never be seporated, both being given to save the lost, unify the body, and make ready the way of the Lord on this eath.