When a teacher claims to speak with authority out of a book, in reality they are more often sharing from their current, purely academic understanding. The followers (believers), therefore, will rarely be able to advance or exceed that of the same academic, classroom study of what they believe to be faith. They will hear the words, but without coming to the experience of the inner awareness. If you try to share the deeper, intuitive meaning with them before they are ready, all you will get is a strongly worded, and seemingly endless scriptural debate.
~Frank Johnson