Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christ-likeness of character apart from his fruit, and no effective witness without his power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
–The Acts of the Apostles, A Commentary by John Stott
I guess it takes a wise elder statesman to express it with such beautiful simplicity – while some other, less experienced folk still cling to forms of semi-Pelagianism …