There are exceptions which could be noted, but, in the main, we are really failing to help each other by going our own way. Now, to clarify, I am not saying that experience with God is not useful or desirable. Remember that I said dead orthodoxy needs experience with God. And if that is a description of you, then you know just what you need. What I am saying is that experience is the servant or handmaiden of the truth, and first things should be first.
Heterodoxy always leads to heteropraxis.
God has already instructed us as to how transformation of behavior is to take place. It is through the truth, not by mere experience. Perhaps it will help to illustrate through the recent and rather short-term season of public confession which affected many of our schools and churches. Sadly, in the midst of this wonderful and blessed activity, there was the distinct desire, perhaps in more cases than we would like to admit, to suspend preaching or teaching of the Word in favor of on-going experience. Now I believe God brought the conviction we saw, and I believe that it is possible for a group to experience times of confession within biblical sanctions, but a major mark of the recent work was the stark absence of the centrality of preaching.